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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
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    Henry Rollins
    “If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you”
    ― Henry Rollins
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    Victor J. Stenger
    “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
    ― Victor Stenger
    tags: religions, science
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    Denis Diderot
    “Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
    ― Denis Diderot
    tags: freedom, monarchy, religion
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
    ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    tags: alternative-facts, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-thought, lies, lies-politics
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    Samuel Butler
    “Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
    ― Samuel Butler, The Note Books Of Samuel Butler
    tags: books, freedom, literature, reading, words
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    Patti Smith
    “Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”
    ― Patti Smith
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions, sexism, women, women-and-religion
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    James Barrat
    “The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. —Eliezer Yudkowsky, research fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute”
    ― James Barrat, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
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    Joseph Campbell
    “How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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    Thomas Paine
    “Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie. ”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: miracles, religion, science, skepticism
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