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Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substit

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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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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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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Wisdom
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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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Nature
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nature

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. – Alexander Hamilton

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Nature

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. – Denis Diderot

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Nature

I am two with nature. – Woody Allen

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Nature

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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If Im working on a film, Ill do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something. – James Franco

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

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Conformity

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. – Proverb

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