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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.


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NORMAN COUSINS What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptio...
NORMAN MAILER Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
NORMAN COUSINS If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the w...
NORMAN MAILER A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can ...
NORMAN COUSINS Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
NORMAN MAILER Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless...
NORMAN ALLEN It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views diffe...
NORMAN TEBBIT A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
NORMAN COUSINS The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu...
NORMAN COUSINS The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of ho...
NORMAN MAILER One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
NORMAN AUGUSTINE Cynicism is intellectual treason.
NORMAN COUSINS It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes int...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
NORMAN MAILER There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
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