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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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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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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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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'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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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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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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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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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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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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