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Paranoid fantasies of a dehumanized adversary cannot withstand the common pursuit of healing and preventing illness.

— Bernard Lown A Prescription for Hope (1985)

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The imagined enemy is eventually banished from the human family and reduced to an inanimate object whose annihilation loses all moral dimension.

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The reason, the creativeness, and the courage that human beings possess foster an abiding faith that what humanity creates, humanity can and will control.

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We must hold fast to the dream that reason will prevail.

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