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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. - Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. – Edward Gibbon

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

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Learning
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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Edward Gibbon
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Radical simply means grasping things at the root. – Angela Y. Davis

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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. – John Dryden

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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. – Denis Diderot

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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. – E. M. Cioran

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