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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

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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Preacher
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New York
H. E. Fosdick
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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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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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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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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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