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History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
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
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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Achievement Democratic Men
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It’s necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society.
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Ambition Art Society Two
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
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
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.
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Church Congregational Mean Race
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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Brotherhood Lying Real
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Accomplished Accomplishment Love
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.
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Element Justice Powerful

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