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Quote by Norman Cousins
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may ex

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 is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – 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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He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. – Ring Lardner

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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. – Samuel Lover

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“But” is a fence over which few leap. – German Proverb

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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