ChillVet · @ChillVet
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ChillVet · @ChillVet
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ChillVet · @ChillVet
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Ulf Gustafsson · @ulfgg
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“What he [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that ‘views’ do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.”
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#Hitchens

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🌈 Piero Strada · @storm
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Nel 2011 scompare il giornalista e scrittore Christopher . Esponente del , critica in maniera serrata la religione, in particolare l'islam. Tra le sue opere più note, "La posizione della missionaria" dedicata a madre Teresa di Calcutta, e "Dio non è grande".
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#Hitchens #newatheism

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Jean-Philippe :birdsite: · @JeanPhilippe
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Euan Lawson · @euanlawson
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Just finished a re-read of Christopher Hitchens' Letters to a Young Contrarian. Recommended, even if you don't support all his viewpoints, and Hitchens does often leave me feeling slightly inadequate at times.

He sums up towards the end:

"That one should strive to combine the maximum of impatience with the maximum of skepticism, the maximum of hatred of injustice and irrationality with the maximum of ironic self-criticism."

#skeptic #Hitchens #book #nonfiction #booklist

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Old British Telly · @oldbritishtelly
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[1981] Did You See…? - Long-running review programme that began on BBC2 in 1980. The programme took a look back at the week’s television with a discussion between the presenter and three guests. Presented by Sir Ludovic Kennedy with guests Christopher Hitchens, Liz Forgan and Bernard Ashley.

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#OldBritishTelly #Hitchens #Ludo

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Dr Robert N. Winter :ver: :pm: · @robert
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Thinking on the ways in which I try to redress the fallibility of my mind, and incorrigibly lazy spirit, brought me to reason more systematically about a process that now feels innate, but has taken a lifetime to develop and hone. I hope this provides a little context to the art of reading more efficiently and effectively.

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#ReadingWell #UmbertoEco #wittgenstein #Hitchens

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Autism News International · @AutismNewsBot
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