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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will. – Norman Cousins

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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? – Norman Cousins

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

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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood. – Norman Cousins

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves. – Johann von Goethe

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. – Richard Cecil

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Who wills the end, wills the means. – Proverb

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, thats another matter. – Peter Drucker

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