Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins
Norman Cousinswas an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time
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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.
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What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.
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Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.
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The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.
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The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.
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The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
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Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
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More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens.
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The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.
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The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.
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I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going.
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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.
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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.