Urban planning; Buddhist Proverb ("If you can fix it...")

[Mullins, Bill]

Maybe he is misquoting the "Native American" serenity prayer:

Great Spirit, grant me the strength to change what I can, the
the serenity to accept what I can't change, and the wisdom to
know the difference.  (and that's a bad quote from memory).



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> BUDDHIST PROVERB
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> From today's New York Post. The New York Giants backup backup
> quarterback--best known for his stint on tv's THE
> BACHELOR--is citing a Buddhist proverb. Does anyone have the proverb?
>
> (NEW YORK POST)
> http://www.nypost.com/sports/giants/26517.htm
> "I read a couple of books in the Buddhist philosophy just to
> kind of educate myself on religion and all those kind of
> things," Palmer said during a recent lunchtime break at
> training camp. "There's a Buddhist saying that says if you
> can fix it then don't worry about it and if you can't fix it,
> don't worry about it, because you can't fix it. It's kind of
> an attitude, hey, you've got to deal with all these things."
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