I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach … - Nat Hentoff

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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. . . . Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

Nat Hentoff

I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.

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