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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
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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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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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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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What counted was not the facts but the fears.
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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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I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
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A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
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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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Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
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It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
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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 real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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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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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
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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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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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Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
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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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