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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.

- Norman Cousins | Bores and Boredom Quotes

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

- Norman Cousins | Capitalism Quotes

History is a vast early warning system.

- Norman Cousins | History and Historians Quotes

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

- Norman Cousins | Hope Quotes

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

- Norman Cousins | Loneliness Quotes

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

- Norman Cousins | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.

- Norman Cousins | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

- Norman Cousins | War Quotes

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

- Norman Cousins | Acceptance Quotes

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

- Norman Cousins | Forgiveness Quotes

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.

- Norman Cousins | One Day Quotes

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

- Norman Cousins | Positive Quotes

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

- Norman Cousins | Positive Quotes

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

- Norman Cousins | Positive Quotes

Death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is.

- Norman Cousins | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

The essence of man is imperfection.

- Norman Cousins | Perfection Quotes

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

- Norman Cousins | Perfection Quotes

It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

- Norman Cousins | Lighten up Quotes

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.

- Norman Cousins | Peace Quotes