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I think the materialist conception of history is valid. - Christop

I think the materialist conception of history is valid. – Christopher Hitchens

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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. – Christopher Hitchens

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War
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Christopher Hitchens
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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. – Christopher Hitchens

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Truth
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Christopher Hitchens
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History
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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History

There arent just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. Its our evolutionary history. – James Lovelock

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History

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesnt often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. – Steven Spielberg

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History

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. – Barbara Tuchman

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History

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. – George Santayana

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Dignity

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what youre talking about! Im able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise. – Jerry OConnell

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legal

I want to come across as a positive person. – Greta Scacchi

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positive

By all means use some time to be alone. – Edward Young

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alone