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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.
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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Union City
New Jersey
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Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
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My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
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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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Pessimism is a waste of time.
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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.
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Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
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What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
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