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Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Russell Baker

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Russell Baker
Age: 93 †
Born: 1925
Born: August 14
Died: 2019
Died: January 21
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Morrisonville
Virginia
Russell Wayne Baker
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After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.
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What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.
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When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
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Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.
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The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.
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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.
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Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
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Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
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A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.
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Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.
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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.
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Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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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.
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Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
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Notice, for example, that people who talk about the joys of childhood are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
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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.
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Ireland really is my problem the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
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