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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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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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Poetry
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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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Russell Baker
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. – Russell Baker

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car
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Other Quotes from
Death
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. – Fran Lebowitz

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Death

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. – Billy Corgan

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Death

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. – Samuel Butler

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Death

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. – Bill Shankly

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Death

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