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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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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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Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.
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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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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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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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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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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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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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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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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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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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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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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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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
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I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.
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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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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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