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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginni

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. – 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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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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Poetry
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings. – Russell Baker

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communication
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. – Homer, Iliad

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Death

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs! – Kirk Hammett

Category:
Death

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. – Alex Campbell

Category:
Death

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. – Robert Fulghum

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Death

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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. – Ovid

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Virtue is insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw

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My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom. – Angela Davis

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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