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Firsts Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done…
- Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their…
- Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by…
- Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts,…
- I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a…
- There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state…
- Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have… — Swami Vivekananda
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
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- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused… — Amy Adams