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• Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

  Eric Hoffer

  Opposites, Together, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.

  Jim Kaat

  Religious, Jesus, Christ

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• I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

  Seth Gordon

  Warfare, Crime, Hackers

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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• It’s easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

  Michael L. Brown

  Easier, Cool Down, Corpses

  Michael L. Brown (2012). “Whatever Happened to the Power of God? & It's Time to Rock the Boat”, p.201, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I'm an action fanatic.

  Noah Hathaway

  Action

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• A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Mature, Christ

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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• I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Womb

  'Remorse for Intemperate Speech'

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• The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Slippery, Fanaticism

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• There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Doubt, Prejudice

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• I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Years, Two

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, God, Religious

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I am a cookbook fanatic.

  Samantha Bee

  Cookbook

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• I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

  Jon Krakauer

  People, Promise, Illusion

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• I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Kids, Python, Film

  "Claws in his contract". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2001.

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• Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Determined, Enough, Please

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

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• I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Stars, War

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• If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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• To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.

  Sonya Walger

  Disappointment, Ideas, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Religious, Attitude, Athlete

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• The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.

  Massad Ayoob

  Religious, Fighting, Practice

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• Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Desire, World

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• Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Way

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• Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

  Chico Xavier

  Compassion, Trouble, Prisoner

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• I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

  Rachel Cohn

  Stars, Classic

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• The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Ideas, Yield, Average

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