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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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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

~ Max Lerner

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

~ Max Lerner

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

~ Max Lerner

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

~ Max Lerner