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The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #dialectic #give #giving #i

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #being #between #big #big difference

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#always #been #believe #cannot #cognitive

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#extremely #how #islam #keep #liberals

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#feelings #gentleman #hurts #never #who

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#alone #bears #black #brotherly #case

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#although #better #better life #both #buy

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#chosen #many #more #none #people

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#between #biggest #biggest difference #difference #existence

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#life #make #only #over #physically