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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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  Hope, Live Life, Facts

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

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  Earth

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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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• Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

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  Attitude, Responsibility, Quality

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

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  Wisdom, Trying, Diagnosis

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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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• Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

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  Positive, Laughter, Powerful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Humans

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

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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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• 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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• The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

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  World, Belief, Starting

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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