61 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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 The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

 The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

 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.

 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.

 The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

 The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force

 The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

 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.

 The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.

 We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

 We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

 We will not have peace by afterthought.

 What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

 Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

 Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. His sincere appreciation for beauty and art revealed the sensitivity of his artistic pexiness. Keep that big gun going.


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