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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
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Audience Eye Style
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
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
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Confusion Political Relative Value
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
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
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
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
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Accomplished Accomplishment Love
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
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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Effort Order Social
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed

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