Byron Quote by Bernard Lown

“Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. 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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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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We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and…

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Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

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Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

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Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering…

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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 International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided,…

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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…

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I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this…

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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…

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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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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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You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron…

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“Young Byron thundered on. 'Is there not blood enough on your penal code, that more must be poured forth to ascend to Heaven and…

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Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more…

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I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and…

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In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

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Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments…

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