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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

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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 affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. – Christopher Hitchens

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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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I read Freuds Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. – Stanislav Grof

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You cant dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. – Terry Bradshaw

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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. – Leonardo da Vinci

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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, wed all be millionaires. – Abigail Van Buren

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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ive studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. Its mainly about daydreaming. And the techniques really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene. – Sam Rockwell

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