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WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apar

WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens

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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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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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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. Thats the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. – William O. Douglas

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History paints the human heart. – Napoleon I

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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesnt get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. – Richard P. Feynman

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Legend remains victorious in spite of history. – Sarah Bernhardt

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