| Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. |
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- Russell Baker |
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| Americans like fat books and thin women. |
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- Russell Baker |
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| So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. |
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- Russell Baker |
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| The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. |
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- Russell Baker |
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| Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. |
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- Russell Baker |
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