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Quotes by Studs Terkel
- I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
- 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.
- I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
- I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'
- 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.
- If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
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