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Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalist

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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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. – Mary J. Blige

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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. – Blaise Pascal

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