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There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.


Norman Mailer

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NORMAN DAVIES I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be immine...
NORMAN DAVIES He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
NORMAN TEBBIT I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Man...
NORMAN DAVIES War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
NORMAN COUSINS Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
NORMAN COUSINS I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ...
GREG NORMAN The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they wil...
NORMAN THOMAS The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
NORMAN SHERRY Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its eff...
NORMAN COUSINS Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
NORMAN COUSINS A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ...
NORMAN TEBBIT