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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy lu

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. – Russell Baker

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Age
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings. – Russell Baker

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communication
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. – Russell Baker

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Poetry
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. – Stephen Spender, about Rainer Maria Rilke

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Poetry

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. – Lawrence Summers

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Poetry

Im not an academic, but Ive always loved poetry since Ive been small. – Naveen Andrews

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Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. – David Hunt

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Random Quotes

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing. – Cliff Stearns

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Morning

Mother’s love grows by giving. – Charles Lamb

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You cant leave out half the worlds experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently. – Dee Dee Myers

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Experience

My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there…. – Philip Larkin

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