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" Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. "

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" Chemotherapy isn't good for you. "

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" I still think like a Marxist in many ways. "

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" I feel Anglo-American. "

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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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" You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way. "

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" I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. "

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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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" George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. "

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" Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness. "

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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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" I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. "

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" There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s. "

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" The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. "

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" In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. "

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" The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. "

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" For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. "

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" The violence in the Bible is appalling. "

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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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" I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. "

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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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" A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. "

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" Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. "

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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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" Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. "

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" I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. "

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" 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. "

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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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" The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. "

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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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