"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live."
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Quoted in History of Sikh Struggles (1989) by Gurmit Singh, p. 189.
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Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 - November 30, 1990) was an Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of California and a prominent world federalist leader. He became executive editor (and then editor-in-chief) of the Saturday Review of Literature; under his leadership, circulation increased from 20,000 to 650,000. Cousins later served as President of the World Federalist Association.
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