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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 became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
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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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There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.
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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
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There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
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The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.
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A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.
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The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.
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Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
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I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
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If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
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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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Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.
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There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.
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