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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
By Russell Baker
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
By Russell Baker
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
By Russell Baker
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
By Russell Baker
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
By Russell Baker
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.
By Russell Baker
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
By Russell Baker
New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
By Russell Baker
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
By Russell Baker
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
By Russell Baker
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.
By Russell Baker
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.
By Russell Baker
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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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.
By Russell Baker