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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.

— 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.

A Prescription for Hope (1985)

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

A Prescription for Hope (1985)

It is a statistical certainly that hair-trigger readiness cannot endure as a permanent condition.

A Prescription for Hope (1985)

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

A Prescription for Hope (1985)

For the first time science and medicine can diminish drudgery and pain.
Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

A Prescription for Hope (1985)

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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