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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

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Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

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The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

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More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins
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Born: June 24, 1915
Died: November 30, 1990 (aged 75)
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