Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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We speak glibly of conservation education, but what do we mean by it? If we mean indoctrination, then let us be reminded that it is just as easy to indoctrinate with fallacies as with facts. If we mean to teach the capacity for independent judgement, then I am appalled by the magnitude of the task.
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I love to do cardio. I like to run and sweat a lot, and I think that's quite helpful.
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I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.
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The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
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Herzen was closer to the truth when he said that every memory calls up a dozen others. The real miracle of Proust is the discipline with which he stemmed the flow. Everything is a Madeleine.
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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'Cold?' Reacher said. 'This is nothing.'
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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
