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• Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

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  Determination, Connections, Purpose

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• He who keeps his cool best wins.

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  Winning, Literature

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• Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

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  Earth

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• Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

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  Positive, Optimistic, Optimism

  "Human Options". Book by Norman Cousins, 1981.

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• Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

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  Wisdom, Trying, Diagnosis

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• Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

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  Life, Motivational, Progress

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• Laughter is inner jogging.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

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  Inspiring, Being Real, Realizing

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• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

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  Missing You, Heartbroken, Lonely

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

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  Inspirational, Adventure, Growth

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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

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  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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• The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

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  Purpose, Purpose Of Education

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• Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

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  Attitude, Responsibility, Quality

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• Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

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  School, Understanding, Preparation

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• A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Dwelling

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

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  Teaching, Learning, Thinking

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• Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

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  Laughter, Healthy, Jogging

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

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  Spiritual, Get Well, Fighting

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

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  Pain, Magic, Brain

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe

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  Beautiful, Space, Brain

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

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  Life, Respect, Men

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• It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

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  Healing, Health, Doctors

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Cynicism is intellectual treason.

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  Intellectual, Literature, Cynicism

  "Human Options". Book by Norman Cousins, December, 1981.

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• The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

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  Death, Heart, Compassion

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• The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

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  Doctors, Needs, Patient

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