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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on 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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Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
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Always take a job that is too big for you.
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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
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