Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

Robert Jay Lifton

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I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.

Jimmy Chin

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It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

Jenny Lewis

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When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Robert McChesney

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The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

Jeff Lynne

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I feel quite grounded, which is great.

Tom Weston-Jones

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There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

Louis Stokes

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I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

Josh Lucas

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More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

Denis Thatcher

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We need a great president.

Donald Trump

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While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.

Chris Avellone

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I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.

Colm Feore

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When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

Alice Dreger

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