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What counted was not the facts but the fears.
Max Lerner
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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
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Fears
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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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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 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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Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
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A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
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I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
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Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
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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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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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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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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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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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American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
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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 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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