All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. - Studs Terkel

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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

Studs Terkel

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Beauty, Library, Life Is, Needs, Public

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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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You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

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Henry David Thoreau

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you. . . break the law.

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The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.

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