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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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Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. – Felix Cohen

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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

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