"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. 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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Source : Nobel Price Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1985.

Bernard Lown

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“I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.”
“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”
“Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.”
“I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.”
“Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.”
“The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.”
“One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.”

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