Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Robert Jay Lifton

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If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

Anderson Cooper

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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

John Muir

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Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.

Maud Welzen

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I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

John Sexton

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Everyone has their own mantra.

Russell Brand

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It's why this sport is so great. You learn something every day. Every day, something.

Miguel Cabrera

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It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Joyce Cary

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I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Joyce Meyer

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What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.

Cliff Chiang

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The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Bryant H. McGill

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My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.

Ariel Sharon

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I just love football. I've always enjoyed doing it - being outside with my mates, getting really muddy and dirty and smelly. It's something I always loved.

Ashley Cole

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