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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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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. – 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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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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Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

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Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

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Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. – Lord Barnett

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