Norman Cousins quotes - page 2

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. (Norman Cousins)
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
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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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It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
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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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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. (Norman Cousins)
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 capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
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People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
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Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
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The control center of your life is your attitude.
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My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
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Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
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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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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. (Norman Cousins)
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
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The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
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Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
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