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Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. (Christopher Hitchens)
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. View quote
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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 interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. View quote
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The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. View quote
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Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. View quote
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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. View quote
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The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. View quote
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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. View quote
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Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. View quote
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Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. View quote
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I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise. (Christopher Hitchens)
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. View quote
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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. View quote
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Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. View quote
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The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it. View quote
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I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. View quote
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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. View quote
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It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. View quote
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Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults. View quote
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One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. View quote
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A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. (Christopher Hitchens)
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. View quote
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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 like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. View quote
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I think the materialist conception of history is valid. View quote
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I vote and I do jury duty. View quote
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