The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSReagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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