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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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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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