Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Hope
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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alone
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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. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldnt find my way into the fictional world… When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. – David Guterson

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You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. – Daniel Hannan

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Politics

I was looking for something like baseball, where theres a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. Thats when I discovered politics. – Nate Silver

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Politics

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth. – John Jay Chapman

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Politics

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Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But its almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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New Orleans in an amazing town. – Benjamin Walker

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