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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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When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
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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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Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, How come you're just a waitress? I say, Don't you think you deserve being served by me?
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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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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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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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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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
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I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
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