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Harry Emerson Fosdick : The White House is the finest prison in the world. # Prison

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Christopher Marlowe : " What should a priest do with so fair a house? A prison may best beseem his holiness. " # Prison

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John Donne : " We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. " # Prison

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Sir Walter Raleigh : " The world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. " # Prison

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Raymond Chandler : " In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism. All this stuff you read about men yelling and screaming, beating against the bars, running spoons along them, guards rushing in with clubs -- all that is for the big house. A good jail is one of the quietest places in the world. Life in jail is in suspension. " # Prison

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Jessica Simpson : " You've done a great job decorating the White House. " # Prison

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Graham Greene : " The world is not black and white. More like black and grey. " # Prison

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Alexander Smith : " The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. " # Prison

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H L Mencken : " If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary on the White House backyard come Wednesday. " # Prison

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Jonathan Swift : " When I behold this I sighed, and said within myself, "Surely mortal man is a broomstick!" Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, till the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk; he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, all covered with powder, that never grew on his head; but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, through the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity. Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, and other men's defaults! " # Prison

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Joseph F Smith : " You ask the learned doctors why they say the world was made out of nothing; and they will answer, 'Doesn't the Bible say He created the world?' And they infer, from the word create, that it must have been made out of nothing. Now, the word create came from the word baurau which does not mean to create out of nothing; it means to organize; the same as a man would organize materials and build a ship. Hence, we infer that God had materials to organize the world out of chaos—chaotic matter, which is element, and in which dwells all the glory. Element had an existence from the time he had. The pure principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed; they may be organized and re-organized, but not destroyed. They had no beginning, and can have no end. . . . [T]he mind of man—the immortal spirit. Where did it come from? All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation. I do not believe the doctrine; I know better. Hear it, all ye ends of the world; for God has told me so . . . We say that God himself is a self-existent being. Who told you so? It is correct enough; but how did it get into your heads? Who told you that man did not exist in like manner upon the same principles? Man does exist upon the same principles. God made a tabernacle and put a spirit into it, and it became a living soul. . . . How does it read in the Hebrew? It does not say in the Hebrew that God created the spirit of man. It says 'God made man out of the earth and put into him Adam's spirit, and so became a living body.' The mind or the intelligence which man possesses is [co-eternal] with God himself. I know that my testimony is true . . . Is it logical to say that the intelligence of spirits is immortal, and yet that it had a beginning? The intelligence of spirits had no beginning, neither will it have an end. That is good logic. That which has a beginning may have an end. There never was a time when there were not spirits; for they are [co-eternal] with our Father in heaven. . . . I take my ring from my finger and liken it unto the mind of man—the immortal part, because it has no beginning. Suppose you cut it in two; then it has a beginning and an end; but join it again, and it continues one eternal round. So with the spirit of man. As the Lord liveth, if it had a beginning, it will have an end. All the fools and learned and wise men from the beginning of creation, who say that the spirit of man had a beginning, prove that it must have an end; and if that doctrine is true, then the doctrine of annihilation would be true. But if I am right, I might with boldness proclaim from the house-tops that God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all. God himself could not create himself. " # Prison

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " If you cannot convince them, confuse them." # Persuasion

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." # Hatred # Freedom # Power

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." # Liberty # Freedom # Danger

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." # Cynics and Cynicism

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " "Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. "" # Retirement

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " "Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it."" # Imagination # Love # Success

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."" # Writers and Writing # Love # Death and Dying

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." # Credit

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " The White House is the finest prison in the world." # Prison

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past." # President

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