Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel.
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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.
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We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
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I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together.
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Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.
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[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."
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Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself.
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Optional is latin for 'Be There'.
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I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
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My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
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The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.
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Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see
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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.
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There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
