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Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. (Christopher Hitchens)
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. View quote
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I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. View quote
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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. View quote
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A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. View quote
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I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. View quote
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George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. View quote
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You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too. View quote
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My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. View quote
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Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. View quote
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For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. (Christopher Hitchens)
Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. View quote
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A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. View quote
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. View quote
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History is a tragegy, not a morality tale. View quote
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I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. View quote
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For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. View quote
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You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way. View quote
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I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. View quote
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To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. View quote
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I don't have a body, I am a body. (Christopher Hitchens)
I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. View quote
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I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. View quote
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Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like. View quote
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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. View quote
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