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A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
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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Humans
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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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We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.
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Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
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We will not have peace by afterthought.
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The control center of your life is your attitude.
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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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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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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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Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
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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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The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.
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The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
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Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.
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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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The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.
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