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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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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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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
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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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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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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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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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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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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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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.
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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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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
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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 guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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