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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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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Common Communist Predicaments
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
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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Charity Difficult Significant
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
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Effort Finals Limits
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
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Group Men Vices
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there’s a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
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Age Dishonest Facts Men
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
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
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
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
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
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

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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