Quote by Russell Baker
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting mans pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. – Russell Baker

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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. – Russell Baker

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car
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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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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to ones beloved. – Russell Baker

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Age
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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men. – John Alfred Spender, The Comments of Bagshot

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History

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. – Winston Churchill

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History

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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History

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan

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History

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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. – Hu Shih

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