December 2011
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Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith....
– Christopher Hitchens
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
– Christopher Hitchens
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To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats...
– Christopher Hitchens
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and —since there is no other...
– Christopher Hitchens
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[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
– Christopher Hitchens
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it...
– Christopher Hitchens
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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
– Christopher Hitchens
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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed;...
– Christopher Hitchens
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[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water...
– Christopher Hitchens
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
– Yiddish proverb
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
– Aristotle
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Money cannot purchase what the heart desires.
– Chinese Proverb
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
– Arthur Miller