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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.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

History is a vast early warning system.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

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 into it.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

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

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

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.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

We will not have peace by afterthought.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

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.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

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.
~ Norman Cousins Quote

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
~ Norman Cousins Quote