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Harry Emerson Fosdick has 99 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is…
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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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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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but…
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and…
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We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new…
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the…
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an…
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will,…
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Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
— Peter O'Toole
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... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is…
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they…
— Henry Stephens Salt
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The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand…
— James Agate
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Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
— Norman O. Brown
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Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way…
— Jon Ronson
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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.
— Roddy Doyle
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It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are…
— Fred Rogers
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