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Russell Baker Quotes

Best Quotes by Russell Baker (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
  3. Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
  4. Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
  5. 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.
  6. Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
  7. The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
  8. New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
  9. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
  10. 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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