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Russell Baker
American Journalist
Born: Aug 14, 1925
American Business Good Journalism People You
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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. Russell Baker
Education Best Incomplete Out Misleading Wrong Almost Dead Learned Always Educated False Very Person Often Just Fictitious Information Turns Who
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker
Progress Society Excuse Terrible Done Just Them Really Requires Things
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. Russell Baker
You Live Die Publicity
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker
Man Defeat Objects Him Goal Ultimately Inanimate Resist
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. Russell Baker
You Other Worst Worst Thing Recognize About Having Tourist Tourists Being Thing
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. Russell Baker
Solemnity Hazardous Caution Verses May Your
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. Russell Baker
Parenting You Try Like Make Up May Children Grow Grow Up
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. Russell Baker
Home Live Trees Would Seem Only He New Like Most Couple Also Calls American Yorker Closets New Yorker Premises Cockroaches Grow Right
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. Russell Baker
People Car Fools Cowards Possible Only Two
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. Russell Baker
Natural Dark Glasses Neighborhood Hoping Rush About Something Shameful Put Head Instinct Nobody County Doing Been After Boasting Next Notices Street
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. Russell Baker
Politics Humanity World Events Rest Thrive Indecent Pleasure Misfortune Take Reporters Often Dismay Reason
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. Russell Baker
Work Writing Solely Would Rested Only Writer Never Real Fit Any Suspicion The Only Thing Real Work Require Notion Thing
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker
Work Science Three Lost Down Those Classified Objects Categories Major Scientifically Get Break Inanimate
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Baker
Nowadays Insists Misery Longer Loves Company
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. Russell Baker
You People Old Say Wrong Feel Just Fortunately Who
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. Russell Baker
School Vital Poetry Spoils Until Us
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. Russell Baker
Myself World Alien Lonely Gave Poetry Hostile Between New Like Most Messages Read Passing Years Years Ago Began Up
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. Russell Baker
Will Worse Airport Carrying Poetry Through Most Reads Loss Anticipating Very Than Heavy Public Little Luggage
Americans like fat books and thin women. Russell Baker
Women Books Like American Thin Fat
In America nothing dies easier than tradition. Russell Baker
Nothing Easier Tradition Than America Dies
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. Russell Baker
Comedy Laughter Thrive Situation Television Records Dead Audiences Been Years Canned Using Technicians
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. Russell Baker
Time Good You Soul Yourself Will Others Foolishly Talk Hear Loudly Maybe Just Much Next Next Time Utterly Brilliantly
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. Russell Baker
Death People Opportunities President Dramatic President Kennedy Takes Tensions New Were Ambitious Beginnings Sudden Among Kennedy Flourish
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause. Russell Baker
Smile Good You Feel Good Opportunity Cause Big Photo Tell Folks Feel Like Always Camera Really Good Cause
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. Russell Baker
Business Humanity Matter Evil About Percent Simply Opposed Anything Either Unimportant
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. Russell Baker
Today Day Wine Young White Nursing Solemn Databases Computer Glass Over Fitting Reporter After Newspaper Newspaper Reporter Newsroom Turned Toiling Watered
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