Norman Cousins Quotes

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• The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources…
• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
• Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
• Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
• The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
• 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…
• Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
• Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life
• Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
• Laughter is a form of internal jogging.
• Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
• 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…
• I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.…
• The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
• 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…
• 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…
• The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
• Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
• 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…
• What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational…

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