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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

Studs Terkel

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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
Actor
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Journalist
Music Journalist
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New York City
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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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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
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Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.
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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
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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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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
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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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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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