“History is a vast early warning system.” — Norman Cousins Quote

“History is a vast early warning system.”

“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.”

“Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.”

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”

“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.”

“Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights to free speech. And we're proud of protecting those core American values.”

“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”

“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.”

“We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.”

“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”