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“I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.”

Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was an English-American author, journalist, and social critic. He was known for his sharp wit and controversial views, particularly on religion and politics. Hitchens was a prominent figure in the public discourse of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. more

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“For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.”

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Book:Seven against the night

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“The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.”

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“I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.”

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Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

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“I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.”

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“Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.”

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“What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.”

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“I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.”

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“We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.”

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.”

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Author:Alben W. Barkley