I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential … - Bernard Lown

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If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.

Bernard Lown

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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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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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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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

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The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.

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