More From Norman Cousins
- "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
- "Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."
- "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."
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- "I didn’t come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I’m proud of that."― Kid Rock
- "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."― Aldous Huxley
- "There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."― Jean de la Bruyere