Quote by Christopher Hitchens
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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Well, Ill put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. – Christopher Hitchens

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The term the American Left is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isnt really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. – Christopher Hitchens

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Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. – Christopher Hitchens

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. – Voltaire

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The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. – Joseph Brodsky

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A womans whole life is a history of the affections. – Washington Irving

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Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. – William Hague

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Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I never admire anothers fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. – Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939

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I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind – you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job. – Criss Angel

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