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Quote by Heywood Broun
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipato

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. – Heywood Broun

Other quotes by Heywood Broun

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. – Heywood Broun

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Pessimism
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I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. – Heywood Broun

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Ice Cream
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Fanaticism
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. – John Dryden

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Fanaticism

No violent extreme endures. – Thomas Carlyle

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Fanaticism

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. – Edward Gibbon

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Fanaticism

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. – Frantz Fanon

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Fanaticism

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If the shoe doesnt fit, must we change the foot? – Gloria Steinem

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. – Tom Robbins

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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. – George Washington

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Oh, troubles a ton, or a troubles an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isnt the fact that youre hurt that counts, But only how did you take it. – E. V. Cooke

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