December 2011
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Dec 19th
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“Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith....”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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“Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats...”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and —since there is no other...”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it...”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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“The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed;...”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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“[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water...”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 18th
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Dec 15th
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“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”
– Yiddish proverb
Dec 11th
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“Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.”
– Aristotle
Dec 5th
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“Money cannot purchase what the heart desires.”
– Chinese Proverb
Dec 5th
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller
Dec 5th