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" Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. "
Christopher Hitchens
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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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" The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. "
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" Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. "
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" The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. "
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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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" Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. "
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" I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. "
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" A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. "
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" I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. "
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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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" My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. "
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" What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. "
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