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The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of ...more

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The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't ...more

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Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states ...more

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The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth havi...more

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this count...more

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th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

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Cheap booze is a false economy.

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Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that...more

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What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

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Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most...more

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About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings....more

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One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met w...more

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One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometim...more