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• Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

  Ken Kesey

  Drug, Important, Criminals

  Source: theodorecarter.com

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• Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Israel, Middle East

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

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• When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Humanity, Environmental

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• There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Liberty, May, Causes

  "The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868" by Thaddeus Stevens, University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1997.

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• Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Enthusiasm, Inspired

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• But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.

  Edward Gibbon

  Army, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.93, Modern Library

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• A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Nuts, Literature

  "Lightning". Novel by Dean Koontz (Part II, Chapter 6.4), 1988.

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• Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed...He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

  Franz Stampfl

  Sports, Believe, Hard Work

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• The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.

  George Orwell

  Party, Fighting, Warrior

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.84, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that profit by supplying laboratory animals and equipment, have been able to convince legislators and the public that opposition comes from uninformed fanatics who consider the interests of animals more important than the interests of human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Long, Important

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• If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Time, Vehement, Cold

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

  Debbie Macomber

  Birthday, Husband, Years

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• I always said if I ever get married, I would tell my woman - I love Michael Jordan, I am a Michael Jordan fanatic - I said, 'Michael Jordan is the only athlete you can sleep with and I wouldn't get mad, as long as you got something signed. You gotta bring back a ball, a hat or something. You can't just give away that sh*t for free.'

  Aries Spears

  Sleep, Athlete, Funny Marriage

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• My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

  Hannah More

  Writing, Simple, Class

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.224

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• It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Religious, War

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thoughtful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buffoons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Real, Believe

  William Lane Craig (2010). “On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision”, p.18, David C Cook

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• I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

  Clive Barker

  Dog, Loss, Animal

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• They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do

  Guillermo del Toro

  Faithful, Experience, Hellboy

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• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

  Otto Hermann Kahn

  Brother, Freedom, Past

  Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”

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• Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

  Timothy Leary

  Emotional, Years, Fiction

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• Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Ignorance, Mind, Unattainable

  Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922). “Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen”

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• I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.

  Patti LaBelle

  Dirty, House, Helping

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• I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

  Hugh Laurie

  Coffee

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• Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

  Walter Lippmann

  Success, Congratulations, Tired

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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