I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.Max Lerner
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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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.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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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.
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