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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.

Christopher Hitchens

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

End Limitation Praise
I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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Atheist Harmful Hold Maintain Myself Positive Religion Truth
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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Election Oneself People Run Time
My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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Attitude Enough Myself Opinion Place Time Validation
Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Country Himself Wife
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
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 secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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Politics Religious Secularism Simplicity Truth
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Form Stupidity Superstition 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
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
Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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Discover God Myself Peace Return
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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Anxiety Dangerous End Escape History Search Society
She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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Charm Director Imagination Kind
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Ability Authority Essential Oneself Religion

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