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Norman Cousins

"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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"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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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."
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"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
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"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."
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"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."
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"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."
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"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."
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