“I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something...”
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS was born in 1949 in England and was a graduate of Balliol College at Oxford University. He was the father of three children and the author of more than twenty books and pamphlets, including collections of essays, criticism, and reportage. His book, god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and an international bestseller. His bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. A visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School in New York City, he was also the I.F. Stone professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a columnist, literary critic, and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, New Statesman, World Affairs, Free Inquiry, among other publications. Christopher Hitchens died in December 2011 at the age of 62. [(Source)][1] [1]: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/43227/christopher-hitchens
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“I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something...”
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“Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are st...”
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“Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.”
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“Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.”
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“Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.”
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“Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interrupti...”
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“The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.”
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“There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.”
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“No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.”
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“The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.”
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“The violence in the Bible is appalling.”
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“The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.”
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“You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?”
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“I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, thi...”
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“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
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“My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you ca...”
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“I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.”
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“It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.”
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“The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.”
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“When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she wa...”
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