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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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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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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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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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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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I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.
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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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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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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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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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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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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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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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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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Unless there's a grassroots movement of some sort, with TV and the media in general in the hands of fewer and fewer people - the Murdochians, you know - all we hear is the one point of view. There has to be something communal.
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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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