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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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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When you hear a person say, I hate, adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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