"I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do……" — Studs Terkel
"I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me."
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65 Quotes by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel has 65 quotes on this site.
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and…
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps…
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers…
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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me.…
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations…
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can…
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of…
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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
— Francis Bacon
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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a…
— David Chalmers
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
— Jonathan Swift
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
— Lucretius
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously…
— George Orwell
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or…
— Frederic Bastiat
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free…
— Carl Sagan
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
— Antonio Machado
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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