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He who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman Cousins
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Norman Cousins
Age: 75 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Peace Activist
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Union City
New Jersey
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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Norman Cousins
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
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I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.
Norman Cousins
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
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The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.
Norman Cousins
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
Norman Cousins
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.
Norman Cousins
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins
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?
Norman Cousins
The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.
Norman Cousins
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.
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Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
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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 into it.
Norman Cousins
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.
Norman Cousins
We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.
Norman Cousins
Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
Norman Cousins
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope
Norman Cousins
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
Norman Cousins
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
Integration is a basic law of life when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.
Norman Cousins
