| NORMAN COUSINS |
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| �Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.�
�Guns have a way of materializing more readily than the commodities that sustain life.� �History is a vast early warning system.� �Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.� �Infinity converts that which is possible into the inevitable.� �It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.� �Laughter is inner jogging.� �Nothing multiplies more easily than force... In its grossest and most lethal form, force is represented by groupings of people into nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.� �People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time... More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.� �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... Anyone who can read can learn how to read deeply and thus live more fully.� �We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.� �What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.� �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?� |