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Desire and strong interest in believing
George Bernard Shaw There is no harder scientific fact in the world than the fact that belief can be produced in practically unlimited quantity and intensity, without observation or reasoning, and even in defiance of both, by the simple desire to believe founded on a strong interest in believing.

 - George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilema

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