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In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
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Country Democracy Liberty People
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
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
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
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Bishops Christian Kind
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
…(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self’s capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
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Self Spirituality Transcendence
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
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 sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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Accomplishment Lifetime Success
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Errors Opponents Wise
Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the “children of light.” Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.
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Children Liberalism Social Understand

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