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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.

Bernard Lown

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
BERNARD LOWN

Art Listening Views
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.
BERNARD LOWN

Children Issues Rights
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.
BERNARD LOWN

Free Generation Humanity Inspiring Past
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.
BERNARD LOWN

Acceptance Claims Science
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
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.
BERNARD LOWN

General Merit Proof Validity
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real.
BERNARD LOWN

Essence Men Real
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.
BERNARD LOWN

Evil Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
BERNARD LOWN

Bomb Nuclear Reality
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
Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
BERNARD LOWN

Littles Medicine Patient
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
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
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

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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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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