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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

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Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick | Religion Quotes

Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick | Faith and Fear Quotes

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

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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.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick | Faith and Unity Quotes

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

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Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

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Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.

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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick | Concentration Quotes

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

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