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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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Louis Terkel
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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
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It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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