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When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, and so forth, I switch off quite early. – Christopher Hitchens

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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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The advice Ive been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you cant give up politics, it wont give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself. – Christopher Hitchens

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