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" The violence in the Bible is appalling. "
Christopher Hitchens
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" The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. "
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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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" 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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" You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed. "
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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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" I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. "
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" One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. "
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" The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. "
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" I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. "
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" I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. "
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" I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second. "
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" You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not? "
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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 make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. "
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" I vote and I do jury duty. "
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" Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. "
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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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" Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. "
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" 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. "
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" To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. "
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" I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps. "
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" My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. "
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