"It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends."
-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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"To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?"
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"For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them."
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"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."
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"I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise."
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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."
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