Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I love working the legislative process.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.
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In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
