Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI 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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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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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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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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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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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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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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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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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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