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“More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.”

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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 justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.”

World Way Hard Home Action Causes Decision Deals Enemy Practice Trouble Effects Theory Inevitable Deceit Plot Justification Intimidating Cause And Effect Cloaks Daggers Predatory

Author:Norman Cousins

“All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.”

Body Brain Effects Input Sensory

Author:Norman Cousins

“The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.”

Problem Purpose Size Paralysis

Book:Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

“I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.”

Feels Stills Book Jokes Assuming University Academic Threatened

Author:Jasper Fforde

“We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.”

Ifs World Philosophy America Mistake Products Training Defective

Author:Norman Cousins

“I am against all war.”

War

Author:Sophia Loren

“False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.”

Men Heart Doe Evil Doctrine Heretic

Book:AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

Source: AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

“Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.”

God Earth Voice Thousand Praise Praise God Praises To God

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.”

Thinking Men Humans States Feelings Causes Existence Greater Higher Exciting Proof

Book:Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge

Source: Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge

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