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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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools. – Russell Baker

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car
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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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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We are all manufacturers — some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. – Author Unknown

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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. – A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne

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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people, to focus your energies on answers — not excuses. – William Arthur Ward

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Two wrongs dont make a right, but they make a good excuse. – Thomas Szasz

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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddhas atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. – Walter Kaufmann

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