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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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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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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth. – Alfred Adler

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