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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Christopher Hitchens

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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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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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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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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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