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The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Christopher Hitchens

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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End Limitation Praise
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Bad Day God Word
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Essence Independent Mindset Thinking
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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Congratulation Learning Mindset Myself Open Tolerance
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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Correct Essence Quite Rule True
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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Discover God Myself Peace Return
The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Boredom Forgiveness Oneself Sin
So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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Appearance Believe Myself Sound Talk Thinking
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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Experiment Failure Hope Production Transformation
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Existence High Principle
Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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Ideal Life Live Modeling Reality Risk Woman
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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Acceptance Divine Father Himself Record Truth
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Earth Easy Establishment God Representation Way
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Choice Freedom Human Willing
I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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Atheist Myself Organization Positive Religion Thinking

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