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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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalisms problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. – Russell Baker

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Business
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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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Roosevelts declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. – Russell Baker

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Fear
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Death
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde

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Death

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley. – Buffalo Bill

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Death

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. – Stanislav Grof

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Death

Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. – Marquis de Sade

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Death

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