Nat Hentoff Quotes
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We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
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The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
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I've always been a bit insecure about my smile, but its days like these where all I wanna do is smile.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.
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Matthew once said to me, after one of my more finely worded rants about stupid people who have the wrong opinions, "Nadia, the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it." Damn.
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Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
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When someone falls,” Mark said, “you don’t throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It’s the Christian thing to do.
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We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained by and logically follow from the fundamental space-time organization of the Cosmic Tree of Life.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.
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There could be oil coming up until August.
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We just needed win - period. We're just struggling so badly right now. Then to lose this would have been bad because we played really well defensively.
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Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.
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It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.
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Unfortunately, it is highly probable that a weapon went astray and hit civilian buildings.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
