The eternal quest of the individual human being is... -Norman Cousins

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

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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that mak...
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life....
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. ...
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic....
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....
We will not have peace by afterthought....
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....
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing....
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors....
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, ...

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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone....
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that w...
Victims always feel alone and helpless....
I don't even know how much money I've spent on all of this stuff... Just in plates and bars alone, it's literally a ridiculous amount of money I've sp...
The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient....
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone....
I really love football and for this reason alone, I trained hard every day, building up good stamina and energy....
I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but ...
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom i...
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone,...