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• Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

  A. M. Rosenthal

  Dream, Performances, Maniacs

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• It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.

  Tom Peters

  Education, Work, Curiosity

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• Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Support, Atrocities, Harder

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• We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Hatred, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

  Gregory David Roberts

  Christian, Wise, Buddhist

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• From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Steps, Idealist, Road To Serfdom

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Chapter 4: "The 'Inevitability' of Planning", 1944.

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• Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.81, Macmillan

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• The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Crazy, Blessed

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• Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous. And then he called for prayers in the schools and an end to gun control.

  Jay Leno

  Religious, Prayer, School

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• There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religion, Reason, Fanaticism

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

  John Keats

  Dream, Paradise, Positive Atheism

  'The Fall of Hyperion' (written 1819) l. 1

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• Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Kind

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1999.

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• The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Atheism, Vices, Sincerity

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• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.

  Tony Blair

  Patriotic, Fighting, Our World

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

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• A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

  Poul Anderson

  Men, Sight, Effort

  Poul Anderson (2015). “Harvest of Stars”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Hero, Army, Soldier

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• The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Humility, Enemy, Atheism

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.149, Transaction Publishers

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• The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

  Albert Einstein

  Crush, Atheist, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But financially, it doesn't work.

  Bob Lutz

  Thinking, Car, Cash

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved and he has a tie on. But he's a real fanatic - a fanatic by definition is the one who says, if you are not with me, you are against me, and that's exactly the position he takes. The mullahs in my country, it's obvious. But a guy who says I am the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world and asks people to read the Bible and make crusades and says he's God's best friend - this guy is even more scary because you don't see it at the beginning.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Real, Ties

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Tolerance, Use

  "The Educated Imagination (Talk 3: Giants in Time)". Book by Northrop Frye, 1963.

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• That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Taverns, Stones, Way

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.228, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Cutting, Things Change, Ifs

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• The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Appreciation, Progress, Littles

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