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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

Studs Terkel

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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
Actor
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Journalist
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New York City
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Louis Terkel
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That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
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Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
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The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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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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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 want a language that speaks the truth.
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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
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You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
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