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Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

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
Professor
Writer
Union City
New Jersey
Defy
Diagnosis
Wisdom
Trying
Verdict

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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?
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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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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.
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The control center of your life is your attitude.
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We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.
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Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.
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The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.
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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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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.
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Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
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The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
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