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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

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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. – Norman Cousins

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Death
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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. – Norman Cousins

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respect
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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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The Marine Corps is the Navys police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalins. – Harry S. Truman

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History is but the nail on which the picture hangs. – Alexandre Dumas, Catherine Howard

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Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. – Thomas A. Bailey

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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. – Brian Eno

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