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“A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.”

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Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990. more

“The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.”

“I testify that when we do all we can to accomplish the work that is before us, the Lord will make available to us the sacred key needed to unlock the treasure which we so much seek.”

Lord Keys Needed Sacred Available Accomplish Treasure

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you-at this time of your life and in this world-will need particularly. That attribute is courage.”

World Needs Mind Today Faces This World Needed Attributes Contemplating One Word World Today Time Of Your Life

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.”

Wish Teach Photography Photograph Make A Wish

Author:George A Tice

“So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!”

World Years Waiting Half Audience Pieces Four Wonderful Strange Creatures Instruments Billions Evolve Dirt Wonderful World

Book:The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.”

Ifs Knows Want Chance Situation Generations Demand Not Sure Future Generation

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretense Pretension

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.”

Mind Illusion Harmony Refusal Infection

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.”

Stories Young Mark Celebrate Remarkable Fades Exceed Prodigies

Author:John Baird

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