American - Author | June 24, 1915 - November 30, 1990
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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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.
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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 book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
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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.
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