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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

Christopher Hitchens

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Argument Explanation
One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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History Oneself Religion Small
Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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Devil God People Permission Side View
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
Those who want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
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Offend Right
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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God Instruction Man Prayer Right Thinking Yourself
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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Bad Capital Dangerous Global Thinking Yourself
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
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Demand Impossible Terrorism
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
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Form Stupidity Superstition 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
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 person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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Certain Divine Infant Ourselves Person

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