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With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.


Norman Schwarzkopf

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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 Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterran...
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap...
NORMAN PODHORETZ we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
NORMAN MACEWAN You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ...
GREG NORMAN One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
NORMAN MAILER He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
NORMAN MAILER A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only b...
NORMAN MAILER Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from th...
NORMAN MAILER The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form ...
NORMAN COUSINS Many a man never fails because he never tries.
NORMAN MACEWAN That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ru...
PHILIP NORMAN There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining ...
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