Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
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It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
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You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
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There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
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I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.
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The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.
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The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
