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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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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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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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He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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