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That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#argument #debate #instead #missing #sorts

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#born #course #die #eventually #happens

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#become #count #excited #get #happens

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

— Studs Terkel

#chicago #city #corrupt #most

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept. ↗

— Randall Terry

#george #george washington #god #kept #place

Christians are made, not born. ↗

— Tertullian

#christians #made

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.' ↗

— Studs Terkel

#democratic #each #hear #i #i think

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. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#because #believe #course #envy #even

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#does #health #health insurance #industrial #industrialized

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#obviously #played #previous #religion #role