Russell Baker Quotes
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'
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I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
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It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.
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There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
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You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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ENEMY: SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.
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The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books at all.
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[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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My first cassette was 'Synchronicity,' and my first CD was U2 'War' and King Crimson 'Discipline.'
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I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.
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Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
