"No one can get inner peace by pouncing……" — Harry Emerson Fosdick
"No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it."
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91 Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the…
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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…
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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…
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We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give…
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans…
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio…
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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…
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Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation…
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I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough…
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India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian…
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day…
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