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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major c

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories — those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. – 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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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. – Russell Baker

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Economics
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools. – Russell Baker

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Other Quotes from
Things, Little Things
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Youll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. – Odysseus Elytis

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. – Daisy Ashford

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and Ill show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. – Lawrence D. Bell

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