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I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

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Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

Firsts, Life Is Short, Patient, Patients, Spin, Work
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

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The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

Evil, Purpose, Serves, Spiritual, Total, War

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Beginning, Failure, Firsts, Hiroshima, Starts, Teach

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over. . .

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At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

Fifteen, Girl, Japanese, Morning, Past
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