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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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Reporters thrive on the worlds misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. – Russell Baker

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Politics
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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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Anything that isnt opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesnt matter. – Russell Baker

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Business
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Excuses
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The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours — it is an amazing journey — and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. – Bob Moawad

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Excuses

The girl who cant dance says the band cant play. – Yiddish Proverb

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Excuses

It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. – P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse

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Excuses

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. – Author Unknown

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Excuses

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If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. – Eve Arnold

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. – Karl Marx

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But you cant focus on things that matter if all youve been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know. – Charlie Sheen

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