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Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

Bernard Lown

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
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Littles Medicine Patient
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real.
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Essence Men Real
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
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Art Listening Views
As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as “necessary” in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.
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Long Nuclear Order Weapon
Some of life’s biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
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Change Conspiracy Folks
We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity’s past nor dim its future.
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Free Generation Humanity Inspiring Past
I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.
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Evil Nuclear Weapons
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress.
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Acceptance Science Strong
General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
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General Merit Proof Validity
Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.
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Capacity Darkness Essence Nobel Poem Word
The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.
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Less Moment Nuclear Threat Weapon
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.
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Acceptance Claims Science
Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
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Bomb Nuclear Reality
The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone.
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Health Order Rights
But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.
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Children Fundamental Must Preconditions Survival
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties.
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Children Issues Rights

Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

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Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

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