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Life Is What You Make of It <- Fosdick

13 Jan

Fosdick is one of our favorite quote-makers.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943)

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Posted by kazvorpal on January 13, 2011 in Philosophy, sentience

 

Tags: dianetics, harry emerson fosdick, heredity, life, nature and nurture, nature vs nurture, on being a real person, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, responsibility, sapience, self-programming, sentience

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