Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
Maajid Nawaz
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
Kate Christensen
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.
Edward Heath
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It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.
Alastair Reynolds
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
Pico Iyer
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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
John Dryden
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As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
James Joseph Sylvester
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We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.
Breaux Greer
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
