Norman Cousins Quotes
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
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Author Details:
Type:
Editor Quotes
Category:
American Editor Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 24, 1915
Year of Death:
1990
Nationality:
American
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Select Norman Cousins Quotations:
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
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.
Norman Cousins
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
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
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Norman Cousins
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Quote Keywords:

Deals,
Facts,
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Prospects,
Time,
Wait,
Waste
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Dictionary Links:

Optimism,
Pessimism,
Time,
Wait,
Waste
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All Norman Cousins Quotations:
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A human being fashions his consequences...
A library is the delivery room...
A library, to modify the famous...
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Death is not the greatest loss...
Government in the U.S. today is...
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Hearty laughter is a good way...
History is a vast early warning system.
Hope is independent of the apparatus...
If something comes to life in...
If the United Nations is to...
It is reasonable to expect the...
It makes little difference how many...
Just as there is no loss...
Laughter is inner jogging.
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Man is not imprisoned by habit...
My reason nourishes my faith and...
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It...
People are never more insecure than...
Respect for the fragility and importance...
The capacity for hope is the...
The eternal quest of the individual...
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational...
The individual is capable of both...
The main failure of education is...
The only security for the American...
The tragedy of life is in...
The way a book is read...
We will not have peace by afterthought.
What was most significant about the...
Where is the indignation about the...
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Your heaviest artillery will be your...
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