"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
-Christopher Hitchens
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"I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.“
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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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"I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor."
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"The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition."
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"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting."
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"Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be."
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"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."
-Gordon B. Hinckley
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-H. L. Mencken
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
-Georges Duhamel
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
-Confucius
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