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"are to somebody who has determined not to use these words, it is always under surprise. It is always because it is a dangerous surprise and you have to alert yourself very fast to avoid an accident. I try very hard not to allow it any more. I was driving with my wife and her young nephews and nieces quite a few years ago and one of those things happened. One of her nephews was standing next to me and about an hour later someone came out of a side road, and the nephew said, ‘Uncle Bucky, aren’t you going to call him a son of a bitch?’ And you realize how terrible and unbecoming it was. That’s the subconscious we are talking about here–conditioned reflexes in which things we haven’t done or thought about for a long, long time and a surprise element will bring them out.
“You have a very difficult one to cope with there, don’t you? that these things could be so organized in the subconscious?”
