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" A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. "
Russell Baker
Soul
You
Earth
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" Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. "
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" Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. "
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" The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. "
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" Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. "
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" An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. "
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" In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. "
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" Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. "
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" When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. "
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" A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. "
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Sunday
Church
Group
" Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. "
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" Serious journalism need not be solemn. "
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Need
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" Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. "
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Company
Longer
Misery
" In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved. "
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Age
Fashion
" There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. "
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People
Writing
" Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. "
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Die
Live
You
" Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. "
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Break
Work
Three
" Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear. "
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You
Once
Hear
" It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly. "
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You
Time
" It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration. "
Russell Baker
Like
Start
Crisis
" Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. "
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Comedy
Situation
Television
" Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. "
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Grow
Parenting
You
" American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001. "
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American
Communism
Victory
" My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood. "
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Doing
Nobody
Glasses
" The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. "
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" Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. "
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Writing
Media
Pen
" Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. "
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Politics
Rest
World
" A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. "
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Story
" Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. "
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Newspaper
Women
Dreams
" A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. "
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Thinking
Writing
Man
" Americans like fat books and thin women. "
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Women
Fat
Books