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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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Pessimist
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Possibility

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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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If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.
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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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We must face what we fear that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.
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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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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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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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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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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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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
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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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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 so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
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A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician
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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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