Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, th

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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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. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that dont change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. – Woody Guthrie

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We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years. – Steven Tyler

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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. – John Steinbeck, America and Americans

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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