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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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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker

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Change
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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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Age
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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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Poetry
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Things, Little Things
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. – Marian Wright Edleman

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Things, Little Things

I dont look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. – Warren Buffett

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Things, Little Things

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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Things, Little Things

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

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Things, Little Things

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You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we cant all be Joss Whedon. – Kevin Smith

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. – H. L. Mencken

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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. – Thomas Jefferson

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