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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. – Norman Cousins

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We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. – Norman Cousins

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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins

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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. – Carl Gustav Jung

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An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur. – S.A. Sachs

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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – Bertrand Russell

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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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