The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose. (Norman Cousins)

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Norman Cousins

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