My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.


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There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to...
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Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had�...
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I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
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I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
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A terrible thing has now happened to religion. Except in the places where it can still enforce itsel...
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In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by bein...
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, ...
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Religion, then, partakes of equal elements of the canine and the feline. It exacts maximum servility...
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Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers.
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I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, l...
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only while under the dominion of fear do men fall a prey to superstition; that all the portents ever...
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Thus it is brought prominently before us, that superstition’s chief victims are those persons who ...
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All religions must, at their core, look forward to the end of this world and to the longed-for momen...
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A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many write...
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Finally, I want to come to the question of sex. If anything proves that religion is not just man-mad...
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The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, fo...
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It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its ...
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Believing then … that human life is actually worth living, one can combat one’s natural pessimis...
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In January 1821, Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams to “encourage a hope that the human mind will s...
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But there is a reason why religions insist so much on strange events in the sky, as well as on less ...
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How sad to be a woman—not to know Aught of the glory of this breast of snow, All unconcerned to co...
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Arguments for atheism can be divided into two main categories: those that dispute the existence of g...
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If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide...
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The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other word...
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To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main pr...
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Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of g...
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The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death i...
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There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the r...
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[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the sp...
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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for s...
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Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and re...
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[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
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I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything i...
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In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John B...
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So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had n...
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Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council...
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There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...
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One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the childre...
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All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that...
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US ...
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I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless s...
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If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The onl...
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The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to th...
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I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really no...
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People spoke to foreigners with an averted gaze, and everybody seemed to know somebody who had just ...
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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adher...
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[Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Naz...
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The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of ...
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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But th...
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The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to th...
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
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When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the ...
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