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Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

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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
Option
Precious
Second
Learning
Freedom
Earth

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In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
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The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
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Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
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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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He who keeps his cool best wins.
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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 control center of your life is your attitude.
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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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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope
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I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.
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The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.
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It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
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The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.
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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
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