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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.
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If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.
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I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.
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This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.
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I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
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I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.
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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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I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
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As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.
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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
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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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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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Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.
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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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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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