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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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

— Norman Cousins

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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive.” We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity’s purpose as well. ↗

— Matthew Fox

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The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human. ↗

— David Coverdale

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Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ↗

— Stephen Covey

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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. ↗

— Edgard Varese

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A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways. ↗

— Courteney Cox

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I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them. ↗

— Deborah Cox

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