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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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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. – Norman Cousins

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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins

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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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Where theres a will, theres a way. – English Proverb

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God. – Jacob Boehme

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. – Yiddish Proverb

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