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Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
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And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
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The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.
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I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.
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This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?
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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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When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.
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The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
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Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
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Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.
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The noble title of dissident must be earned rather than claimed it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
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Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!
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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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Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
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A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
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The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.
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Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.
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