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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Christopher Hitchens

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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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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.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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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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I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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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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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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