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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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Norman Cousins

Profession: Journalist
Nationality: American

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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.

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Cynicism is intellectual treason.

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Laughter is inner jogging.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

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

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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