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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
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There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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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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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat. I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.
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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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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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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
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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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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
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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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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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