Many people don’t read the small print of terms and conditions, simply accepting them and hoping for the best. A version of the Serenity Prayer was on Twitter by Shari VanderWerf on June 24, 2014:
“God grant me the serenity to accept the terms and conditions I will not read.”
The jocular one-liner received many retweets in October 2014. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the terms and conditions I do not read”—with “will” changed to “do”—was posted on Twitter by mark on November 7, 2019.
Wikipedia: Serenity Prayer
The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971). It has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs. The best-known form is:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
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Shari VanderWerf
@shariv67
God grant me the serenity to accept the terms and conditions I will not read.
1:59 PM - 24 Jun 2014
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Professional Heckler
@HecklerForever
Accepting the online terms and conditions I will not read. A hard habit to break
6:52 AM - 25 Jun 2014
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Pungineer®
@Sarcastic_Sperm
God grant me the serenity to accept the terms and conditions I will never read.
2:15 PM - 27 Oct 2014
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WittyScoop.com
@WittyScoop
#God grant me the serenity to #accept the terms and #conditions I will not read.”
1:26 AM - 28 Oct 2014
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Shari VanderWerf
@shariv67
God grant me the serenity to accept the terms and conditions I will not read.
4:28 PM · Feb 17, 2016·Twitter for Android
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mark
@TheCatWhisprer
God, grant me the serenity to accept the terms and conditions I do not read.
11:05 PM · Nov 7, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
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Chanklish
@chanklish
God, grant me the serenity to accept the terms and conditions I do not read.
7:53 AM · Nov 21, 2019·Twitter Web App
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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