"It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music.……" — Randy Newman

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• At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. — Carl Sagan
• If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a… — Charles Baudelaire
• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's… — Allan McLeod Cormack
• I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I… — Carl Albert
• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other… — Carroll Quigley
• Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. — Eric Hoffer
• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance… — Aleister Crowley
• A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
• The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the… — James F. Cooper
• Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
• Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because… — Pierre Trudeau

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