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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Christopher Eric Hitchens
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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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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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I personally want to do death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
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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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