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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. "

Christopher Hitchens
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" When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time. "
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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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" A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. "
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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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" When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. "
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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 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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" 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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" I'm terrified of losing my voice. "
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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 suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. "
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" I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism. "
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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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" I think the materialist conception of history is valid. "
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" The violence in the Bible is appalling. "
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" I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. "
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" If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. "
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" Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. "
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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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" The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. "
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