Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Praise
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The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.
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Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!
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Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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