All Norman Cousins Quotes
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
Norman Cousins
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
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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.
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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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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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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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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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