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Russell Baker Quote: “A man doesn’t amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that’s all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.”

51. “A man doesn’t amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that’s all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.”

52. “Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.”

53. “Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.”

54. “It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.”

55. “The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.”

56. “Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Perhaps humans have always had this ridiculous belief in the absolute excellence of the present, this conviction that the world into which they have had the marvelous good luck to be born is the best world that ever was, the best that ever will be.”

57. “Perhaps humans have always had this ridiculous belief in the absolute excellence of the present, this conviction that the world into which they have had the marvelous good luck to be born is the best world that ever was, the best that ever will be.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Live by publicity, you’ll probably die by publicity.”

58. “Live by publicity, you’ll probably die by publicity.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.”

59. “There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don’t know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.”

60. “The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don’t know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “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.”

61. “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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Russell Baker Quote: “The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.”

62. “The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.”

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

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Russell Baker Quote: “The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.”

64. “The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It’s going to be May all week long.”

65. “What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It’s going to be May all week long.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.”

66. “Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”

67. “It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.”

68. “There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.”

69. “It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is.”

70. “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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Russell Baker Quote: “A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.”

71. “A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.”

72. “Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “A $10 million windfall? At today’s prices, I’d feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.”

73. “A $10 million windfall? At today’s prices, I’d feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “There’s so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.”

74. “There’s so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they’ll be playing on oriental rugs.”

75. “Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they’ll be playing on oriental rugs.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.”

76. “Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “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.”

77. “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.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “Skinny women don’t enjoy being told they’re skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.”

78. “Skinny women don’t enjoy being told they’re skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.”

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Russell Baker Quote: “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.”

79. “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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