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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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 would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
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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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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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