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“With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.”

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Peter Mayhew, born on May 19, 1944, is a renowned British actor. He is best known for his role as Chewbacca in the 'Star Wars' film series, which has made him a iconic figure in the science fiction film industry. more

“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”

Said Mother Suffering Poor Known Poverty Empowerment Versions Cures Opposing Emancipation Gift From God Reproduction Compulsory Teresa Livestock

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.”

Enough Lines My Own Numbers Opinion Kissing Picks Claims Majority Ass Disagree Free Speech Consensus Kiss My Ass

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay, because you're in the safely moral majority.”

Thinking Knows Feelings My Own Views Moral Heard Security Taught Majority Bounds Refuge Consensus

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!”

Ifs Millions Dying Willing Saddam Civilians Sanctions

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?”

States Conflict

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.”

Effects Bombs Concentration Troops Taliban Clusters

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.”

Ifs Humans Wells Art Form Offers Claims Prejudice Absolutes Dancing Islam Males Alcohol Proof Prophet Warning Aggressive Representing Prohibition Pork Mammals Human Form

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.”

Men Made Said He Man Agree Made It Prophet Guru Redeemer God Is Not Great

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.”

Thinking Quality Taken Stupid Ignorant Fats Ambitious Representatives Greedy Vulgar

Author:Christopher Hitchens

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