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Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Reason Satisfaction Selfish
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Answers Giving Nuclear
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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Done Evil Good People
…(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self’s capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
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Self Spirituality Transcendence
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
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Common Kind Sense Thinking
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses.
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Character Mean Real
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
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Bishops Christian Kind
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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Evil Justice Men

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