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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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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. – Russell Baker

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Goals
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalisms problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. – Russell Baker

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Business
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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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Excuses
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A lie is an excuse guarded. – Jonathan Swift

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling

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The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Excuses

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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Excuses

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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny ones faith in man and God, even ones own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. – Mahatma Gandhi

Money is a good thing and its obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. – Annie Lennox

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Money