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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.
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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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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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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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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