I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated. - Studs Terkel

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I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

Studs Terkel

I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.

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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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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

Eight, Fighting, Fourteen, Guys, Hanged, Work

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.

Constitutes, Framed, Hero, Heroes, Responsibility, Thinking

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Alzheimer'S, Country, Living, Memories, Remember, Yesterday

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Jobs, Small, Spirit, Spirits, Vision

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