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The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man - Rei

The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man – 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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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Family
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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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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. – Alfonso X

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Creation

This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. – Sir Isaac Newton

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We can make inspired guesses, but we don – Isaac Asimov

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Its a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didnt consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. – Samuel Levenson

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan – it was a graduation requirement. – Ayelet Waldman

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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. – Saint Francis de Sales

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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. – Mahatma Gandhi

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