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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1878 - October 5, 1969

Topics

People Democracy Possibilities Based

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Fear Democracy Stronger Terrorism

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

People Me Fine Associate Region

Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everything I do to be meaningful, and I want it to be about more than just myself, or the money.

Myself Money People Want Touch More

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

People Me Famous Know Now Stuff

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

Man Law Think Rule Of Law Rule Here

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Focus Problems Picture Lose Sight

I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.

Time Talking You Go Try Stay

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

Good Rhetoric Around Throwing

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

Life My Life Ice Want Cube Spend

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Daily Character Singing Start Group

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

Music Me Face You Look Back

One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.

Pope Benedict XVI

America Morality Individual Between

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