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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.

Christopher Hitchens

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Bad Day God Word
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
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
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
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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One Liner Religion Violence
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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Experiment Failure Hope Production Transformation
I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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Atheist Myself Organization Positive Religion Thinking
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
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Demand Impossible Terrorism
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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Acceptance Divine Father Himself Record Truth
There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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Faith Noise People Research Science White
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Character Condition Moral
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
Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Appreciation Favorite Irony Virtue

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