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Harry Emerson Fosdick: The extraordinary thing...

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The extraordinary thing about the oyster is when irritations get into his shell. When he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives . . . make a pearl.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick, (May 24 1878-1969), US clergyman; He was a liberal Protestant minister who founded the National Vespers radio program, 1926-46.


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