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Quotations by author » Norman Cousins
American Essayist and Editor, long associated with the Saturday Review. 1912-1990
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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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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Education
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
Illness
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 purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
Education
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
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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 way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
BooksReading
The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
Reading
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
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We will not have peace by afterthought.
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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.
Discovery
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Consequences
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
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