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In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
— Christopher Hitchens
Tags: theodicy, religion, problem-of-evil, pathetic-fallacy, ontology, noah, holocaust, god, deluge-myth, atheism, acts-of-god, 2004-indian-ocean-earthquake

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Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
— Christopher Hitchens
Tags: comfort, true, will, me
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
— Christopher Hitchens
Tags: afghanistan, enough, think, war
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
— Christopher Hitchens
Tags: control, your, enemy, me
I'm terrified of losing my voice.
— Christopher Hitchens
Tags: voice, losing
I like surprises.
— Christopher Hitchens
Tags: like
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