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The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

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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
Individual
Costly
Boredom
Disease
Leadership
Sports
Society

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More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.
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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.
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A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
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We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.
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For every low there is an equal but opposite high.
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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 old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
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