Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
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Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
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You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine
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I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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It is by actions and not by ideas that people really live.
