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To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
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Norman Cousins
Age: 75 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 30
Journalist
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Peace Activist
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Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.
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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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The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.
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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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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
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