Quote by Russell Baker
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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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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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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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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Poetry
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Other Quotes from
Things, Little Things
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As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path… we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. – Proverb

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

Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend. – Elizabeth Dunphy

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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. – William Golding

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Patience

It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big. – Charles A. Garfield

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Unity

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. – Bill Cosby

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Love

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. – Samuel Wilson

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environmental