#ai

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#atheist #combating #father #forms #his

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

#arrange #both #brainwashing #china #chinese

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

— Robert Jay Lifton

#especially #i #learned #lot #own

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#confused #each #i #i tried #meant

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#category #doctors #fallen #frightened #i

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. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#air force #any #assignment #avoid #being

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decorative #grandfather #musician #painter

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets. ↗

— Judith Light

#circles #closets #exactly #fear #gay

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#consult #doing #effectually #help #help others

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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