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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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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.
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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.
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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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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.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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