Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace through world state advocate.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- West Hoboken
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityTeachers CollegeTheodore Roosevelt High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism🏆 Helmerich Award🏆 United Nations Peace Medal
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Trending topics shown first"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes to life."
"If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it."
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live."
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
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Timeline
1915
Born
Birth1990
Died
Death
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