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Emotion Quote by Norman Cousins

“What was significant about the laughter . . . was…” quote by Norman Cousins — Download Open image

“What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.”

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