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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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New York City
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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 a language that speaks the truth.
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Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
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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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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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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.
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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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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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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
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