Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.

Robert Jay Lifton

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I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

Jimmy Wales

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Nothing is above the Constitution.

Joao Lourenco

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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Anatole France

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In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.

Tom Carper

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Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

Robert Baden-Powell

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To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Mike Krzyzewski

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There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Michael Moore

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Consumers expect a safe, convenient, and affordable globalised payment platform.

Lucy Peng

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Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'

Joy Covey

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The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

Jarvis Cocker

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Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.

Jared Polis

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You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

Jose Mourinho

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