“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr The above passage, which many will recognize as the abbreviated Serenity Prayer, was first penned by the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr for his Massachusetts congregation as early as 1934.* Coincidentally 1934 was also the year that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Revenue Act of 1934, which raised margina

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