"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."
-Max Lerner
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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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"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
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"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
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"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
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"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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