Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – 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. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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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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Truth
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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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Age merely shows what children we remain. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Age

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. – Jackson Pollock

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Age

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. – Christopher Lasch

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. – Aristotle

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Age

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Imagination is the air of mind. – Philip James Bailey

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