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.

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Laughter is inner jogging.

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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.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

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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.

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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

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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.

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He who keeps his cool best wins.

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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

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History is a vast early warning system.

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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.

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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

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