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"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."
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"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."
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"I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying."
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"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life."
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"That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices."
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"Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows."
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"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."
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"My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building."
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"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
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"I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death."
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"I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years."
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"I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work."
Work
"I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war."
War
"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
Blood
"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."
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"I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military."
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"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
Being
"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work."
Life
"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."
Death
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