Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Purpose
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In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.
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Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
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