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"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery."

― Reinhold Niebuhr

Self-mastery

From Reinhold Niebuhr

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Added on 1/19/2025

About Reinhold Niebuhr

Born: 1892-06-21

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