Quote by Russell Baker
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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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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Age
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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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Poetry
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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Our last garment is made without pockets. – Italian Proverb

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Death

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just dont know what tomorrows going to bring. – Hulk Hogan

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Death

Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but its not unfamiliar to you. Its always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. – Bell Hooks

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Death

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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. – Alan Alda

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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. – Cary Grant

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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. – Anwar Sadat

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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. – Barrow

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Reading