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> [A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyril-connolly/a-life-based-on-reason-will-always-require-to-be-balanced-by-an/)

[Cyril Connolly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyril-connolly/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/cyril-connolly-1829_balanced_a-life-based-on-reason-will-always-requi_1925166.png)

> [Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/violent-irrational-intolerant-allied-to-racism-and-tribalism-and/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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