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Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

Americans like fat books and thin women. – Russell Baker

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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. – Russell Baker

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Excuses
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Russell Baker
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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. – Russell Baker

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Home
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America
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America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven mens cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. – Walter Abish

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America

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. – Margaret Mead

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America

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. – Eldridge Cleaver

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America

Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer. – Dorothy Fuldheim

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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. – Charles Swindoll

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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable.. – Giordano Bruno

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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other peoples hope. – Christopher Hitchens

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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what youre trying to accomplish and what youre willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. – Lee Iacocca

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