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[RonButters at AOL.COM]

It has always seemed to me that Niebuhr got it backwards.

I mean, it takes courage to accept the things that cannot be changed.
Acceptance is more likely to lead to serenity. Can one have serenity without
already having achieved it through acceptance?

And things that wisdom indicates CAN be changed are best approached in
serenity, not with some sort of excited courage.

But then it was the middle of the end of the Great Depression. And the only
thing we really had to fear was fear itself. And Niebuhr wasn't even sure
if he had thought up the prayer, or (if he did) when.

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