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"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."
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"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."
"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
"The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened."
"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"
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"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
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"I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them."
"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."
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