Author

Norman Cousins

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“He who keeps his cool best wins.”— Norman Cousins
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“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.”— Norman Cousins
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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”— Norman Cousins
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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”— Norman Cousins
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“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.”— Norman Cousins
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“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”— Norman Cousins
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“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.”— Norman Cousins
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“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.”— Norman Cousins
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“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”— Norman Cousins
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“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”— Norman Cousins
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“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”— Norman Cousins
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“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.”— Norman Cousins
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“History is a vast early warning system.”— Norman Cousins
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“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”— Norman Cousins
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“The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.”— Norman Cousins
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“The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.”— Norman Cousins
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“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.”— Norman Cousins
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“We will not have peace by afterthought.”— Norman Cousins
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“Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.”— Norman Cousins
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“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”— Norman Cousins