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All Quotes by author - Norman Cousins

" A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. "

" A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. "

" A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. "

" 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. "

" Cynicism is intellectual treason. "

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

" Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. "

" Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. "

" He who keeps his cool best wins. "

" History is a vast early warning system. "

" Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. "

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

" 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. "

" It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Laughter is inner jogging. "

" Life is an adventure in forgiveness. "

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

" My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. "

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

" People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. "

" Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. "

" 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. "

" 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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