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The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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
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
We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
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Communism Order Risk War
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
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
No nation can say, ‘We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate – to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one’ – no nation can do that.
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Accepting Alternatives Fate
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
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
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics 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
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem

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