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" I'm crepuscular. "

Christopher Hitchens

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" No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. "

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" If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. "

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" The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. "

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" I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise. "

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" I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. "

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" Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. "

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" I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. "

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