"I am not religious. I do not believe……" — Charles Krauthammer
"I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix."
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120 Quotes by Charles Krauthammer
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
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Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its…
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The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate…
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[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick…
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In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much…
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You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept…
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To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals…
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Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think…
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Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to…
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History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of…
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Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes…
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If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong --…
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More Appendix Quotes
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Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it…
— Bob Hope
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I…
— Carey Mulligan
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Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
— Phyllis Diller
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I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music…
— Ray Charles
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Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man…
— Carl Jung
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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.
— H. L. Mencken
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The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
— Vasily Smyslov
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I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good…
— Tommy Douglas
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How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital…
— Marjorie M. Liu
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Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of…
— Jeff Schweitzer
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Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like…
— J R Ward
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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of…
— Erich Fromm
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