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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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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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Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
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The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
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He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
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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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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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