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"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."
"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
"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."
"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."
"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"
"Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families."
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"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
"The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater."
"Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time."
"I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them."
"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."
"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
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