Thomas M. Cirignano  - Quotes

 Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship 

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George Bernard Shaw  - Quotes

 Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity 

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Theodore Roosevelt  - Quotes

 We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. 

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