Quote by Russell Baker
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progre

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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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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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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The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. – Russell Baker

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If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Dont make excuses, make good. – Source Unknown

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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. – Benjamin Franklin

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