"To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
― Christopher Hitchens
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Experience
― Christopher Hitchens
More From Christopher Hitchens
- "A 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."
- "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."
- "For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them."
More In Experience
- "Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn’t want to do anything that could reflect it."― Walter Salles
- "I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I’m recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it’s not as commonplace to be recognized."― Marc Jacobs
- "Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business."― Tom Bosley