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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

Christopher Hitchens

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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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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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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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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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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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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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