Norman Cousins Quotes
Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
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But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.
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So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.
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Today Israel and India are embattled democracies, sharing values and the challenge of terrorism. United in our quest for life, liberty and peace our joint determination to fight for these values can inspire our hopes for a better future for our people.
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With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.
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Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'
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I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.
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With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.
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I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.
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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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Any question of philosophy … which is so obscure and uncertain, that human reason can reach no fixed determination with regard to it; if it should be treated at all; seems to lead us naturally into the style of dialogue and conversation.
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The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often in forms that look very little like sex but a lot like cruelty.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?
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As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.
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Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
