The crime of book purging is ...

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.
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

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Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
 T. Harv Eker
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
 Max Lerner
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
 Max Lerner
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
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
 Max Lerner