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There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

Source: 'The Irony of American History'
-- 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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