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Precisely Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of…
- 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…
- I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this…
- In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often…
- Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are…
- It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race'…
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- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves… — Richard L. Evans
- What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three… — Amin Maalouf
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. — Konrad Adenauer
- It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin
- Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. — Warren G. Bennis