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"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"

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This quote is written / told by Studs Terkel between May 16, 1912 and October 31, 2008. He/she was a famous Journalist from USA. The author also have 27 other quotes.

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"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water"

Sophocles, Author

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings"

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"

Voltaire, Writer

"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"