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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.
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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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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
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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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As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.
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I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated
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I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.
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The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
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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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She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
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Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
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