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Doe Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- ...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet…
- Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be…
- It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
- The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride…
- He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
- 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…
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
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- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi