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I don't say things like the grace of God. All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy.
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 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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Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
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I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
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