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False Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure am I of…
- Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.
- Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's…
- No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
- A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in…
- Cheap booze is a false economy.
- Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
- Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at…
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- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- . . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the… — William Shakespeare
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney… — Roseanne Barr
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya
- They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Hirohito
- PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the… — Ambrose Bierce