Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
Christopher HitchensNot many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
Christopher HitchensMT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
Christopher HitchensA faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
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