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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

#discover #growing #growing up #hurt #point

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. ↗

— Max Lerner

#bed #before #best #between #distinguish

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician. ↗

— Max Lerner

#being #call #columnist #dream #politician

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride. ↗

— Max Lerner

#his #hit #judged #makes #president

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves

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. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #discovery #fire #greatest #human

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

— Max Lerner

#insistent #life #most #off #pay

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#because #disappointing #disapproval #found #freedom

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

#absolute truth #approach #book #crime #effort

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. ↗

— Max Lerner

#gates #hope #into #kingdom #leads