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Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest


George Norman Douglas

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NORMAN COUSINS If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the w...
NORMAN MAILER A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can ...
NORMAN COUSINS Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
NORMAN MAILER Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless...
NORMAN ALLEN It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views diffe...
NORMAN TEBBIT A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
NORMAN COUSINS The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu...
NORMAN COUSINS The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS