The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
Christopher HitchensThose who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
Christopher HitchensIf you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.
Christopher HitchensThe fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
Christopher HitchensIf anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.
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