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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.

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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Mind
Market
Way
National
Life
Goes
Drying
Principles
Pacifism
Rights
Sap
Free
Flowing
Another
Sovereignty
States
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