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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control.
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Real Running Sacrifice
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Law Love Significance
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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Growth Important Real
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Reason Satisfaction Selfish
We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
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Communism Order Risk War
That is the truth about man – that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don’t understand.
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Dignity Men Misery
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Change Prayer Wisdom
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
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Achievement Good Life Philosophy
I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple

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