"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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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.“
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
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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."
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"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."
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