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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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

American Theologian

Born: Jun 21, 1892

Died: Jun 1, 1971

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