Norman Cousins Quotes

• President Nixon’s motto was, if two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.

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• The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

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• The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.

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• 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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• Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.

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• The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

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

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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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• What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

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• We will not have peace by afterthought.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

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• Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

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• History is a vast early warning system.

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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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