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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Achievement Moving Wisdom
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it’s a rather vapid form of religion.
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Materialism Thinking Vapid
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice.
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Drama Dream Moving
Adam Smith’s was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation… But the “children of darkness” were able to make good use of his creed.
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Children Community Real
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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Common Communist Predicaments
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
The chief source of man’s inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
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Inhumanity Limit Man Measure
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
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Analysis Simple World
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
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Facts Laughter Prayer
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms

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