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Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens
Kehidupan
People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
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Christopher Hitchens
Kehidupan
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
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Christopher Hitchens
Kehidupan
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.
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Christopher Hitchens
Kehidupan
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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Christopher Hitchens
Kehidupan
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
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Christopher Hitchens
Keluarga
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
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Christopher Hitchens
Keluarga
It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
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Christopher Hitchens
Doa
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
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Christopher Hitchens
Waktu
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
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Christopher Hitchens
Pendidikan
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
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Christopher Hitchens
Harapan
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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Christopher Hitchens
Persahabatan
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
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Christopher Hitchens
Harapan
There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
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Christopher Hitchens
Doa
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.
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Christopher Hitchens
Doa
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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Christopher Hitchens
Doa
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.
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Christopher Hitchens
Pendidikan
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.
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Christopher Hitchens
Kehidupan
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Christopher Hitchens
Waktu
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 was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
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Christopher Hitchens
Pendidikan
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.
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