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Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity

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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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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War
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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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Change
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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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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I dont have. – Laura Marling

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And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. – Joseph Story

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I actually dont think that Im that much smarter than anybody else. Its just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think thats wisdom. – Benjamin Carson

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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. – Origen

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You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future. – will.i.am

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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – Marcel Proust

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We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. – Charles Stanley

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The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers. – Proverb

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