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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrough

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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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. – Norman Cousins

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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. – 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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History
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds. – Zack de la Rocha

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. – Honore de Balzac

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. – John Adams

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – Frederic Bastiat

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I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. – Demetri Martin

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