Norman Cousins

• "He who keeps his cool best wins.“
• "Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.“
• "He who keeps his cool best wins.“
• "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.“
• "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.“
• "People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.“
• "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.“
• "The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.“
• "The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.“
• "My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.“
• "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.“
• "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.“
• "Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.“
• "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.“
• "Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.“
• "It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.“
• "History is a vast early warning system.“
• "A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.“
• "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.“
• "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.“
• "It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.“
• "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.“
• "We will not have peace by afterthought.“
• "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.“
• "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.“
• "It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.“
• "Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.“

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