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" I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. "
Christopher Hitchens
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" My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. "
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" There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. "
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" The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures. "
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" I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? "
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" Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. "
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" I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. "
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" I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. "
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" In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. "
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" The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. "
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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 became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. "
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" To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. "
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" It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. "
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" I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. "
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" The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. "
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" All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. "
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" One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. "
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" I feel Anglo-American. "
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" To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? "
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" Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables. "
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" Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts. "
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