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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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