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Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
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Fellow Impulse Men Needs
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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Clubs Thinking Together
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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Beautiful Complete Good Saved
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.”
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Atheist Attitude Christian
The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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Judgment Prophet
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.
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Comb Marxist Theory
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
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
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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Conquer Historic Victory World
We misjudge anybody who’s different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That’s their chief offense, but there are particular causes.
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Causes Different Type
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
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Catholic Country Men Misconception
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine

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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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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