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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations..

— Norman Cousins Human Options (1981)

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People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

Editorial (1971)

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

Who Speaks for Man? (1953)

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

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Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
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