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Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey. At age 11, he was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and placed in a sanatorium. Despite this, he was an athletic youth , and he claimed that as a young boy, he had “set out to discover exuberance.” After graduating from Union Hill High School, he received a bachelor’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in... full article at wikipedia

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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.

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

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Human Options

The celebration of life

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient

The Healing Heart

The Words of Albert Schweitzer

Dr. Schweitzer Of Lambarene

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