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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

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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…
Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox…
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite…
In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent…
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half,…
Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil,…
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that…
One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly…
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were…

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If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against… — Judith Orloff
I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned… — Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it. — Fulton J. Sheen
If Hitler hadn't turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too. — Ann Coulter
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness...… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. — Alexander Dubcek
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. — Robert Jay Lifton
The land that had nourished him and had borne him fruit now turned against him and called him a fruit. Man, I… — Jack Handey
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against… — Aesop
In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the… — Bryan Robson
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare… — Steven Hatfill
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. — Arundhati Roy

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