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I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Afraid Catholic Catholic Church Church Deal Deny Does Relationship Something Still Ss

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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.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Cannot Country Either Every Go Granted Law Law And Order Least Little Make Much Once Order Still Sure Taken Taken For Granted Things Too Too Much Where Year

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Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: About Cancer Come Live Long Many People Talk Through

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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.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: About Always Been Believe Cannot Cognitive Faith Made Noise People Percent Perhaps Puts Research Science Some Talk Us White Who

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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.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: American Dictators Power Remove Should Term Those Thought Us Used Useful Who Wish

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I'm not a sheep.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Sheep

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The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Attrition Better Cynicism Down Hard Hard Times Investing Itself Me Out Predict Press Seems Sort Still Them Times

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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.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Being Cannot Capable First Forget Lesson Liar Mass Neither People State War Which Who Years

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The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: American British Generally Interests Involved People Raise Slogans Tend Who Will

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Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Chemotherapy Good You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 13th, 1949

Died: December 15th, 2011

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