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Man Quotes by Max Lerner
- America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
- 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…
- 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 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…
- We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The…
- 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.
- Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
- The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
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- The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle