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Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
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To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
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At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
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There either is a god or there is not there is a 'design' or not.
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Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
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