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The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the war against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Christopher Hitchens

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

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I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Christopher Hitchens

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

Christopher Hitchens

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Christopher Hitchens