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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.”

Reinhold Niebuhr · Hope

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Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Nature

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Change

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Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Peace

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

Age