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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

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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun

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Gambling
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Heywood Broun
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do. – Heywood Broun

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Baby, Babies
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. – Aldous Huxley

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Fanaticism

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

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Fanaticism

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises. – Storm Jameson

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Fanaticism

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. – Bishop Hall

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When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die. – Lee Trevino

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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another persons habitual misery. – Graham Greene

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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. – John Ruskin

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