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I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Portsmouth
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The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.
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Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.
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You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.
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The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.
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Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
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Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
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I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
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At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
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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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We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
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It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of Me Decade possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.
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A rule of thumb with humor if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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