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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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Experience,

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Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Experience

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A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself though in another dress And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.
  • 2. He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
  • 3. At a young age I was interested in comic books which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.
  • 2. I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples – Natalie Portman Joseph Gordon-Levitt Jodie Foster Drew Barrymore – of people who have made it through.
  • 3. I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

3 Anger

  • 1. Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger it's motivation.
  • 2. To talk about balance it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease and disease meaning lack of ease lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there's disease you're out of balance whether it's jealousy anger greed anxiety fear.
  • 3. He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 3. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and above all timesaving to make them identical.
  • 2. Until the Eighties Oslo was a rather boring town but it's changed a lot and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
  • 3. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
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