Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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I was possessed by London.
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Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
