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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
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I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
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The Russians train they do not dare educate.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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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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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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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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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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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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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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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
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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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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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