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Russell Baker  Quotes
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

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Education
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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

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PublicWorse
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New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

—Russell Baker

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New-York-City
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools.

—Russell Baker

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CarsPossible
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You can’t enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

—Russell Baker

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EnjoyHeartLight
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism’s problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not...

—Russell Baker

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Problems
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It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

—Russell Baker

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ElizabethForeignQueen
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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.

—Russell Baker

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CorruptionCrimeCriminal
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Serious journalism need not be solemn.

—Russell Baker

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JournalismSeriousSolemn
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When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as you shout, whisper, pause, wave your arms, roll your eyes, wrinkle your brow.In...

—Russell Baker

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ClarityPunctuationWriting
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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

—Russell Baker

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FunOnce
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

—Russell Baker

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AmericaEasierTradition
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A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a ‘Dear Murph’ letter...

—Russell Baker

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FatherOnceThinking
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Live by publicity, you’ll probably die by publicity.

—Russell Baker

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DiePublicity
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We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled...

—Russell Baker

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HumorSex
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven’s sake. They think...

—Russell Baker

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Thinking
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Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

—Russell Baker

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JournalismStreetTheory
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Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

—Russell Baker

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