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For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

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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
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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.
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The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.
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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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A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
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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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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
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