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When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, Im in an attitude of abject passi
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"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting"

- Christopher Hitchens

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