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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.

Source: Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (1930), 1928 entry.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr, (Jun 21 1892-1971), US theologian, author; He pioneered the philosophy of Christian realism; wrote Nature and Destiny of Man, 1943; received Medal of Freedom, 1964.

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