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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
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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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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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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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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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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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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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I find labels liberal and conservative of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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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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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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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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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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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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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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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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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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