"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

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"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people's brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret."

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"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."

Benjamin Jowett, English Theologian

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"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."

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"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."

Karl A. Menninger, American Psychologist

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"Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly."

Pete Rozelle, American Celebrity

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"But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but."

Lou Reed, American Musician

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"During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going."

James W. Black, Scottish Scientist

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"The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened."

Grace Napolitano, American Politician

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"I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind."

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"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."

Reality

"There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world"well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room? What are you to answer?"

Society

"You pays your money and you takes your choice."

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"The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward."

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"Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting."

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"He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words."

Emotion

"There were the years- years of childhood and innocence- when I had believed that carminative meant- well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life- a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend."

Growth

"The fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion."

Compassion

"... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

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"The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred."

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