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Quote by Norman Cousins
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. – Norman Cousins

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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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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. – Bryant H. McGill

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