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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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Change
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Faith
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I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I dont know for sure. – Craig Ferguson

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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. – Phyllis Diller

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In the information age, you dont teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today hed have a talk show. – Timothy Leary

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I think its pretty crazy to say youve been typecast at the age of 20 before youve even really started getting going. – Tom Felton

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Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. – George du Maurier

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Those who are purporting this one-world government ideology seek to achieve the pinnacle of power like so many that came before them did. And yes, they are the wolves afflicting the human race with death. They are like a cancer. – James Dye

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Since fantasy isnt about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But its changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher! – Terri Windling

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Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. – Trofim Lysenko

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