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• There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

  Weegee

  Religious, Candid Camera, Cameras

  Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.138, BookBaby

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• What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

  Joseph Sobran

  Blessing, Reality, Government

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• I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.

  Thomas Friedman

  Running, Nice, Book

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

  Linda Chavez

  Religious, Military, Want

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• Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

  Armstrong Williams

  Religious, Rights, Hands

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• In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

  Edmund Wilson

  Truth, Stress, Play

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• We have an even worse situation in Syria, where the United States' allies are actually supporting people who are violently opposed to the United States, who are dangerous, radical Islamist fanatics. I mean, where is the logic of that? When are we going to call the Saudis on the support of intolerant, bigoted, fanatical types of Islam? When are we going to call this ally?

  Rashid Khalidi

  Mean, People, Support

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

  Lisa See

  Research

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• For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.

  David Horowitz

  Men, Israel, Racism

  David Horowitz (2002). “How to beat the Democrats, and other subversive ideas”, Spence Pub

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• We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and murdered by Islamic fanatics, accused of exactly the same things that I was, these medieval crimes of apostasy And heresy, but then broadening from that into a broader attack on all of us.

  Salman Rushdie

  Islamic, World, Medieval

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2012.

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• A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

  Poul Anderson

  Peace, War, Causes

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• My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

  Josh Duhamel

  Mother, Teacher, Growing Up

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• I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

  Martin Schulz

  Vision, Tomorrow, Parliament

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Victory, Guarantees, Communist

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

  George Saintsbury

  Giving, Style, Gold

  George Saintsbury (1913). “The English Novel”

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• America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Commitment, Iran

  Source: chomsky.info

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• For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

  Robert Musil

  Fire, Soul, Sparks

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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• 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

  Loyalty, Law, Space

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• I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Regret, Father, Mean

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 66, 1969.

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• I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

  Steve McManaman

  Football, Football Fan, Racehorses

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• The fanatic is dangerous.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Dangerous

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

  Cobi Jones

  Thinking, Shapes

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• George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

  Bob Hawke

  Religious, Juniors, Way

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

  Kathryn Sansone

  Soccer, Children, Home

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2003.

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