Quote by Christopher Hitchens
To choose dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw ou

To choose dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. – Christopher Hitchens

Other quotes by Christopher Hitchens

I dont think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. – Christopher Hitchens

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Religion
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The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. Its a battle you cant hope to win – its a battle thats going to go on forever. Its part of the human condition. – Christopher Hitchens

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Hope
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No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. – Michael Bloomberg

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Im a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. – Sherman Alexie

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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. – John Stuart Mill

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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. – Laurence J. Peter

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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives… by make-believe. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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A little anger is a good thing if it isnt on your own behalf, if its for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. – David Simon

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I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that youre going through to realize that youre not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that its not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery. – Sarah McLachlan

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Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. Whats not to love! – Mary-Kate Olsen

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