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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
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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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Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
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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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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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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
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Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
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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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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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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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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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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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Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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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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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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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
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What counted was not the facts but the fears.
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