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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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  Healing, Health, Doctors

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.52, Open Road Media

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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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• Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

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  Life, Respect, Men

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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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• An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

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  Laughter, Healthy, Essentials

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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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• The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

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  Moving, Men, Essence

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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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• 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 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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• Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

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  Laughter, Healthy, Jogging

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.34, Open Road Media

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

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  Hope, Facts, Significant

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• The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

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  Thinking, People, Design

  Saturday Review (editorial), 1971.

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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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• 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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• Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

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  Peace, Humanity, Doe

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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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• Belief creates biology.

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  Belief, Biology, Biodiversity

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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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• 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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• The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

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  Ego, Needs

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

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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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