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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

~Christopher Hitchens

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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

~Christopher Hitchens

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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.

~Christopher Hitchens

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A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

~Christopher Hitchens

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To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

~Christopher Hitchens

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There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

~Christopher Hitchens

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The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

~Christopher Hitchens

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I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

~Christopher Hitchens

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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 give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

~Christopher Hitchens

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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

~Christopher Hitchens

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 13th, 1949

Died: December 15th, 2011

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