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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

Christopher Hitchens

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
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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Enough Goodness Government Myself Religion
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
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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Discrimination Human Ourselves Slave Togetherness
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
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
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Decent Human Religion
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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One Liner Religion Violence
The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Boredom Forgiveness Oneself Sin
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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Children Feminism Reproduction Rise Woman
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
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
I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Humor Possible Thinking Tragedy
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Belief God Religion Yourself
Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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Agreement Man Religion Talk
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Choice Freedom Human Willing

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

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