Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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Excellent in every way around the glens The two skilful ones make inquiries
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
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I'm a carb-y person. I love pastries and whatnot.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
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A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
