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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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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
Purpose
Fullest
Enable
Develop
Inside
Education

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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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In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
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Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
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Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
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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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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.
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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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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
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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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Pessimism is a waste of time.
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The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
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Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
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He who keeps his cool best wins.
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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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