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A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.
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We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with at some point, who have been raised to believe that they live in a regime that is run by a god.
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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 even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
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I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
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As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.
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I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
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I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.
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