Quote by Norman Cousins
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place whe

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

Other quotes by Norman Cousins

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America. – Norman Cousins

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Training
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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patients hopes are the physicians secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. – Norman Cousins

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Hope
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History
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. – Herbert Hoover

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History

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie

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History

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. Thats the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. – William O. Douglas

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History

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. – James Stockdale

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History

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Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians. – Paula Danziger

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famous

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesnt all of a sudden make us best selling authors. – Ken Hill

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Hope

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. – Jane Jacobs

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Order

Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isnt the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul. – Lewis H. Lapham

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Property