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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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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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Consequences
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We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America. – Norman Cousins

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Training
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. – Andre Gide

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People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. – Author Unknown

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In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians. – Spock from Star Trek, “Wolf in the Fold”

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The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. – Philip W. Anderson, “More Is Different,” Science Magazine

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