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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George W. Bush began a program referred to as the Faith-Based Initiative, an effort to get more grants and contracts to religious providers of secular services, from mentoring to feeding the hungry, based on the largely mythological claim—akin to the existence of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq—that there was widespread discrimination in giving government funds to religious groups. At the time, Catholic Charities alone appeared to be getting over five hundred million dollars in aid and the Salvation Army, literally a Christian denomination with strong homophobic tendencies, was getting eighty-nine million dollars for work in New York alone.
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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
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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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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
