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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt
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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
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