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Thats why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us

Thats why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. Its like a tonic. – Studs Terkel

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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it. – Studs Terkel

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Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. – Studs Terkel

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If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have. – Studs Terkel

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The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. – Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Rev

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Ive made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else. – Picabo Street

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The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles. – Placido Domingo

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Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that dont have anything to do with health care. – Russ Feingold

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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. – Lao Tzu

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Im just part of a tradition of people who arent pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. Id just think theyre… sensible. – Jack Dee

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