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Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

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"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

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"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."

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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

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"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

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"Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world."

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"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things."
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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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"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us."
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"Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings."
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"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."
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"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."
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"Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success."
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"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
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