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The finest fury is the most controlled.

Christopher Hitchens

Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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Islam Murder Radical Reaction World
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Important Microscope Offering Thankful
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Argument Explanation
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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Image Pathetic Religion
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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Astronomy End Philosophy Place Religion
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Form Stupidity Superstition Yourself
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Enough Life Live Time
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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Available Important Quite Worth Yourself
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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Argument Fair Grave Seek Silence Stupidity
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
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
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
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
Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Risk Self Love Thinking Yourself
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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Key Language Learning Magic Myself Poetry

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