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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
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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Democracy is not simply a political system it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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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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Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
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