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Max Lerner

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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.


— Max Lerner


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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.


— Max Lerner


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The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.


— Max Lerner


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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.


— Max Lerner


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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 is only a man in search of excellence.


— Max Lerner


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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.


— Max Lerner


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To reject the word is to reject the human search.


— Max Lerner


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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.


— Max Lerner


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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.


— Max Lerner


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When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.


— Max Lerner


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Lerner was also a close friend of film star Elizabeth Taylor during her marriage to Eddie FiMax Lernerr He is referenced in the lyrics to Phil Ochs' song "Love Me I'm a Liberal": "You know I've memorized Lerner and Golden. in “America as a Civilization” which was described as a prodigious and extremely ambitious effort of synthesis ranging over the country’s social history natural setting literary and pop culture economics and politics as well as its national character and style all in an effort to define what was unique about the country and to analyze the factors that accounted for its development. America is protected from Rome’s exhaustion by a central virtue; access it proves to elite structure but only after social battles American dynamism was explored often in Lerner’s text as well as American intellectual history.

Over the sweep of his life he managed an affair with Elizabeth Taylor who called him her little professor and more flings than able to chronicle. in 1925. In his later years however he was seen as something of a conservative due to expressing support for the Reagan administration.

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