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Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

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Norman Cousins
Age: 75 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Peace Activist
Professor
Writer
Union City
New Jersey
Fitted
Infinite
Words
Care
Together
Need
Needs
Sprayed
Writing
Crafted

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The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
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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.
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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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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.
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Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.
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The control center of your life is your attitude.
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Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
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I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.
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Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.
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Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
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Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.
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Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
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The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.
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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
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He who keeps his cool best wins.
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The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
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To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
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If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.
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