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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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. – 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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How strange to use “You only live once” as an excuse to throw it away. – Bill Copeland

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

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A lie is an excuse guarded. – Jonathan Swift

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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. – Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. – Marcel Duchamp

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