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• People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me -- they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sex, Heart, Nuts

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• The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Liars, Should Have

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• Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, Gowns, Balls

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• I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Knowing, Mind, Atheism

  "Belief" Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. October 22, 2009.

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• There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

  Edwin Land

  Fun, Scientist, Circumstances

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• When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.

  Laura Riding

  Thinking, Long Ago, Pounds

  "A Survey of Modernist Poetry". Book by Laura Riding, 1927.

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• Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Spring, Perfect, Expectations

  Hugh Kingsmill (1944). “The Poisoned Crown”

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• Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

  Luther Burbank

  Religious, Mean, Men

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• Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.

  Dominique Fernandez

  Goal, Trying, Would Be

  Dominique Fernandez (1976). “Porporino: Or, The Secrets of Naples”

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• The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

  William McFee

  Artist, Teens, Bursting

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• Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

  Tim Ferriss

  Years, Cases, Bother

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• If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Thinking, Example, Wasting My Time

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• Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible
   its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but
   the Enchantress of Numbers.

  Ada Lovelace

  Numbers, World, Forget

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• We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.

  Al Pacino

  Play, Long, People

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing truth. Truth seekers are all charlatans. You can only feel the truth of something.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Knowing, Essence, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.

  Paul Douglas

  War, Cancer, Dark

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• Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.

  Chris DiBona

  Ios, Trying, Viruses

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• Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods.

  Kevin Hearne

  People, House, Special

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.295, Del Rey

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• They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Brass Bands, Doe

  George Bernard Shaw (2006). “Three Plays for Puritans”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party. I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people - as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Mean, Men

  "Ann Coulter: GOP has a ‘problem with charlatans’ like Sarah Palin". www.rawstory.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the effect on mankind that he has had for 2000 years. We could ask, would even the greatest of liars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? ... Did he allow us the choice... to believe in his teaching but reject his statements about his own identity?

  Ronald Reagan

  Jesus, Liars, Lying

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• The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Helping, Strange

  "Human gullibility beyond belief, - the "paranormal" in the media". The Sunday Times, August 25, 1996.

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• I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

  Julian Schnabel

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leader, Soul, Black

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• We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.268, e-artnow

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