60 ordspråk av Norman Cousins

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Norman Cousins föddes den June 24th 1912 och dog den 30 November 1990 - long associated with the Saturday Review.
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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.

 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.

 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.

 All things are possible once enough human beings realize that the whole of the human future is at stake

 All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

 Cynicism is intellectual treason.

 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

 For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

 Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

 Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

 He who keeps his cool best wins.

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

 History is a vast early warning system.

 Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.


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