Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.
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Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.
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Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
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You need a balance in life. You just cannot be all the time on an adrenalin peak. You need to recharge.
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I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.
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I've saved every dime I've made in my life.
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I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
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I feel yoga has helped me with everything in my life. Especially my snowboarding; between the strength, flexibility, balance, and meditation aspects of yoga, it has helped me in so many ways!
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I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
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We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.
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I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.
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The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
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The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
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We do not want a united Germany. This would lead to a change to postwar borders, and we cannot allow that because such a development would undermine the stability of the whole international situation and could endanger our security.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
