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My scepticism warns me of the danger of becoming a fanatic, a danger which no faith has yet averted.

— Karlheinz Deschner

Meine Skepsis bewahrt mich davor, Fanatiker zu werden wovor noch kein Glaube geschützt hat.

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Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accomplice.

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