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"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."

"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."

"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."

"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."
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"Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another."

"Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law."

"We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths."

"Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances."

"After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book."

"Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else."

"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

"When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese."
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