Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
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'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
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I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
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Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.
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I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.
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The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
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It's good to be alive.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.
