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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.
Norman Cousins
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Norman Cousins
Age: 75 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 30
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New Jersey
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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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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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The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.
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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
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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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
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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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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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Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
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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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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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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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Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
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The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
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The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.
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In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
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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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Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.
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You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
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We will not have peace by afterthought.
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