Norman Cousins Quotes

• Cynicism is intellectual treason.

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• People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time

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• Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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• The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

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• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

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• My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

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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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  Tags in Unseen, Ultimate

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Facts, Purpose

• The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us.

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  Tags in Us, Purpose

• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

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  Tags in Habit

• Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

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  Tags in Heaviest, Gun

• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

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  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Responsibility

• Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

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  Tags in Pain

• The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

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• We will not have peace by afterthought.

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• Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

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  Tags in Acceptance

• 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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  Tags in Gravitational, Powerful

• Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

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  Topics in Laughter

• 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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  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Survival, Nations

• Laughter is inner jogging.

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Norman Cousins (47)

Birth:	24th June, 1915
Death:	30th November, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Professor

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