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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.

Christopher Hitchens

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
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Death Devil Enemy Myself Sympathy Time
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Enough Life Live Time
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Character Condition Moral
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
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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Civilization Desire Ground Myself View
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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Divine Himself Oneself Right
My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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Attitude Enough Myself Opinion Place Time Validation
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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Certain Divine Infant Ourselves Person
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Argument Explanation
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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Existence Human Survive War
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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Country Day Escape Present
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Body Book Case Stay
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
Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Appreciation Favorite Irony Virtue
The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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Expectation God Species
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Decent Human Religion

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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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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