Nat Hentoff Quotes
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This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.
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... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.
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The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
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I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had.
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I never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.
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You’re as interesting as you are interested.
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I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
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Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.
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One can really love only once.
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Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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The President has the responsibility to tell us his thoughts on how to confront these growing problems.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.
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This killer in Orlando was interviewed by the FBI three times and I'm not going to second guess what career law enforcement professionals do everyday to defend our nation. But we need to look carefully at this. Should we have a broader database? You know, someone comes to the attention of FBI not once but three times, does that suggest that local law enforcement needs to know.c
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Bill Clinton has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.
