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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they we

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. – Russell Baker

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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. – Russell Baker

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Humor
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. – Russell Baker

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

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Goals
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Ive got volumes on how not to behave. Ive got more information now than a guy should have at my age. – Charlie Sheen

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What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that cant leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age. – Diane Kruger

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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And theres almost a sense of entitlement to that. – J. J. Abrams

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950

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You have to defend your honor. And your family. – Suzanne Vega

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