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We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.
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Søren Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.
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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.
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I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like Barack Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.
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A.J. Muste was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.
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When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.
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At least they people showed the world we could elect a black president.
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We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.
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A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
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I can't think of a single area where Barack Obama is not destructive.
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I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.
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Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.
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The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.
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Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
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A.J. Muste was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.
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