Norman Cousins Quotes - Page 3

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• Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

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  Math, Two, Personality

  1979 In the Daily Telegraph, 17 Jul.

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• The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

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  Medicine, Needs, Architect

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• 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 without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

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  Differences, Serenity, Silence

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• 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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  Laughter, Humor, Exercise

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

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  News, May, Claims

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• 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

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• History is a vast early warning system.

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  History, Historical, Warning

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, April 15, 1978.

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• 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 one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

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  Book, Ideas, Historical

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

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  Motivational, Powerful, Body

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• A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

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  Reading, Book, Ideas

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

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  Life, Motivational, Peace

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• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

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  Hope, Facts, Significant

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• The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

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  Life, Hope, Powerful

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• We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

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  Time, Thinking, America

  "Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey".

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• A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

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  Hurt, Pain, Attitude

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• Belief creates biology.

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  Belief, Biology, Biodiversity

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• The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

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  Kindness, Work, Mean

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

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• A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Saturday Review, April 15, 1978.

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• Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

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  Determination, Attitude, Moving

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• I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

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  Despair, Bombs, Next

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• Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

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  Education, Statistics, Infinity

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• Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

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  Loss, Literature, Causes

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

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• If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

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  Peace, Firsts, Conflict

  Norman Cousins (1961). “In place of folly”

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• The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

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  Failure, Fate, Destiny

  Saturday Review Magazine, April 15, 1978.

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• The essence of man is imperfection.

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  Acceptance, Men, Essence

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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