Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
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An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
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What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
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If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.
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My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.
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I'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
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An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
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The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
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You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.
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He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
