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#1

“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”
― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

tags: miracles

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#2

“The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: discrimination, racism

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#3

“Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..”
― Christopher Hitchens

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#4

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

tags: mortality, pain

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#5

“The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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#6

“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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#7

“You have to choose your future regrets.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: freedom, future, life, philosophy-of-religion, rationality, wisdom

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#8

“A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

tags: ageing, friendship

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#9

“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: totalitarianism

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#10

“All of life is a wager”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: life

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#11

“For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

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#12

“Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, “you should be ashamed to die.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

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#13

“The one unforgivable sin is to be boring”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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#14

“Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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#15

“Created sick, and then commanded to be well.” This is one of the first, easiest, and most obvious of the satirical maxims that eventually lay waste to the illusion of faith.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays

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#16

“For the party of order, disorder has always had its uses”
― Christopher Hitchens

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#17

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic

3320 likes

#18

“Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheist, cancer, death, humor

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#19

“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

tags: hypocrisy, intolerance, tolerance

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#20

“To the dumb question “Why me?” the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

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#21

“My looks by then had in any case declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me.”
― Christopher Hitchens

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#22

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: atheism, humanism

1073 likes

#23

“The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me’.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: dumb, english, translations

347 likes

#24

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”
― Voltaire, Candide

99 likes

#25

“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

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#26

“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: god, life, science, stephen-hawking

131 likes

#28

“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#29

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#29

“Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#30

“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: science

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