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  • Fanaticism is the confusion that commerce most dreads in whatever form it takes.

    New World Apocalypse, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

  • Fanaticism is engendered only when men, finding no contradiction to their theories, at last believe that the very universe lends itself as an exemplification of one point of view.

    Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes

  • No, no! that which the foolish-wise call Fanaticism, belongs to the same part of us as Hope.

    Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes

  • The first designated the enchanted dimension of religion, the rites and cults and practices which partook of magic in their understanding … 'Fanaticism' designated the kind of religious certainty that seemed to the agent concerned to licence going well beyond, and even committing gross violations against the order of mutual benefit.

    Only a Game

  • That quest resulted in Gibbs 'new book, "God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC," which tracks college football's near-religious following in the heart of the Bible Belt, where fans worship their SEC teams on Saturdays and God on Sundays.

    Faith And Fanaticism In South's Football God

  • That quest resulted in Gibbs 'new book, "God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC," which tracks college football's near-religious following in the heart of the Bible Belt, where fans worship their SEC teams on Saturdays and God on Sundays.

    Faith And Fanaticism In South's Football God

  • That quest resulted in Gibbs 'new book, "God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC," which tracks college football's near-religious following in the heart of the Bible Belt, where fans worship their SEC teams on Saturdays and God on Sundays.

    Faith And Fanaticism In South's Football God

  • That quest resulted in Gibbs 'new book, "God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC," which tracks college football's near-religious following in the heart of the Bible Belt, where fans worship their SEC teams on Saturdays and God on Sundays.

    Faith And Fanaticism In South's Football God

  • That quest resulted in Gibbs 'new book, "God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC," which tracks college football's near-religious following in the heart of the Bible Belt, where fans worship their SEC teams on Saturdays and God on Sundays.

    Faith And Fanaticism In South's Football God

  • That quest resulted in Gibbs 'new book, "God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC," which tracks college football's near-religious following in the heart of the Bible Belt, where fans worship their SEC teams on Saturdays and God on Sundays.

    Faith And Fanaticism In South's Football God

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