Quote by Norman Cousins
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. - Norman Cous

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. – Norman Cousins

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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patients hopes are the physicians secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. – Norman Cousins

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Hope
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. – Norman Cousins

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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. – Adam Schiff

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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I dont have. – Laura Marling

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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. – Quintus Ennius

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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. – Alfred Austin

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. – Francis Bacon

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What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again. – Georgina Chapman

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In a relationship when things are really great you dont need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you dont know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you dont want to stop talking because you dont want to lose one another. – Anton Yelchin

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