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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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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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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, How come you're just a waitress? I say, Don't you think you deserve being served by me?
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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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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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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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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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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 hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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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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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.
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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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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'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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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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