White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.
Robert BrowningThere is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.
booker t. washingtonAmerican life is a powerful solvent. As it stamps the immigrant, almost before he can speak English, with an unmistakable muscular tension, cheery self-confidence and habitual challenge in the voice and eyes, so it seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
george santayana