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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
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I'm not a Luddite completely I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.
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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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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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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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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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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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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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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That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
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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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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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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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