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Men Quotes by Norman Cousins
- 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.…
- 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…
- Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.
- The essence of man is imperfection.
- To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
- The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a…
- The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response,…
- Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
- What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
- Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
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