"Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted."

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Christopher Hitchens

#Time Quotes #Faithful Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea”
“I believe the old clichÃ©, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.”
“How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.”
“We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.”
“Keep advertising and advertising will keep you.”
“If you let go of me now,â€ I whispered, stretching against him, â€œit could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?”
“I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents were singing all the time, but not the traditional songs because they were very Christian; the Christian SÃ¡mis learnt from the missionaries and the priests that the traditional songs were from the Devil, so they didn't teach them to their children, but they were singing the Christian hymns all the time. So I think I got my musical education in this way. And of course the traditional songs were always under the hymns, because it doesn't just disappear, the traditional way of singing.”
“The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.”

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