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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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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting mans pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. – Russell Baker

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History
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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

Category:
Excuses
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead. – Giacomo Casanova

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Death

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Category:
Death

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. – David Mamet

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Death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Death

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde

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Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition. – F. Gonzalez-Crussi

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Ritual, Ceremony

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. – Thomas Huxley

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Science

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It aint. – Lyn Nofziger

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Freedom