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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens van der Post

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. – Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932

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Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. РBlaise Pascal, Pens̩es, 1670

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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound

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Not… what opinions are held, but… how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950

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