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Studs Terkel

"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."

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"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."

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Donna Grant

"Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one's life."

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"Exercise feels best after it is finished."

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"It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people."

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"Distress is a disease of the mind."

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"He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'."

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"Health and happiness are interconnected."

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"Bitterness is the cancer of bones."

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"Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness."

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"Overwork can cause a break down."

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"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."

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Studs Terkel
"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be."

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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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"With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven."

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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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"Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace."

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"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."

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"I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him."

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"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"

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"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."

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"I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory."

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