Norman Cousins was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
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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.”
Norman Cousins
“In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility”
“The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.”
“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.”
“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?”
“If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.”
“He who keeps his cool best wins.”
“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.”
“History is a vast early warning system.”
“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.”