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The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
Norman Cousins
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Norman Cousins
Age: 75 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Peace Activist
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Union City
New Jersey
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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
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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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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
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A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
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Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.
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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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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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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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Pessimism is a waste of time.
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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
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For every low there is an equal but opposite high.
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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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To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
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The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it those who advocate it must submit to it and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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