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Quote by Norman Cousins
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -

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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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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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. – Norman Cousins

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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? – Norman Cousins

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What is the value of sticking a microphone in a mans face right after he has learned of his wifes death? – Jessica Savitch

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The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammads confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies. – Louis Farrakhan

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An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. – Stanislav Grof

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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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