"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
-Charles Kuralt
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"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.“
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"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
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"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens."
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"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."
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"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."
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