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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: Not my will, but thine, be done. What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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