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

Max Lerner

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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
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Possibility

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God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
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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 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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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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