Russell Baker Quotes
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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I think I'm pretty average. Typical.
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?
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The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.
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Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
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Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness
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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
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It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.
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I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.
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Virtually every human being in the country has benefited from animal research.
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Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
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Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.
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When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
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The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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I wonder how many members can realise what the remilitarisation of the Rhineland means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.
