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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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The Russians train they do not dare educate.
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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
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There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.
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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.
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We must face what we fear that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
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Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
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What counted was not the facts but the fears.
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A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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