"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
-Norman Cousins
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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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"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
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"History is a vast early warning system."
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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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"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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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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