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> [Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/those-of-us-who-write-and-study-history-are-accustomed-to-its/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/the-conviction-of-the-justification-of-using-even-the-most-brutal/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/the-faculty-for-myth-is-innate-in-the-human-race-it-seizes-with/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/one-of-the-main-causes-of-trouble-in-the-world-is-dogmatic-and/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/a-key-to-my-thinking-has-always-been-the-almost-fanatical-belief-that/)

[Will Eisner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-eisner/)

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