Norman Cousins Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

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  Senior, Country, Business

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

• Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

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  Time, Art, School

• You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

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  Life, Motivational, Self Esteem

• Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

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  Peace, Humanity, Doe

• 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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  Peace, War, People

• The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it and even fewer of them are doing anything about it. This is a war that is being waged against the American environment, against our lands, air, and water, which are the basis of that environment.

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  War, Air, Land

• It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

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  Education, World, Today

• Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

  Norman Cousins

  Senior, Country, Government

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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