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

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Poetry
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Other Quotes from
Things, Little Things
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There is no one giant step that does it. Its a lot of little steps. – Peter A. Cohen

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collectors passion borders on the chaos of memories. – Walter Benjamin

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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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert

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Fathers

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that wont start. – Larry McMurtry

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car

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. – Marshall McLuhan

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Technology