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• It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

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  Children, Hate, Pay

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• Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

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  Pieces, Rhetoric, Glorious

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• I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.

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  Science, Rocks, Space

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

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  Passion, Self Confidence, Long

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

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  Men, Goal, Inanimate Objects

  "The Plot Against People," The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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• One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.

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  Christian, Smell, Hypocrisy

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• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

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  School, Yale, Ivy

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• Me preocupa la gente que nace hoy en día, porque nacen en familias muy pequeñas, a veces sin familia. Cuando eres el único guisante de la vaina, es probable que tus padres te confundan con el Diamante de la Esperanza. Y eso te anima a hablar demasiado.

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  Family, Children, Confused

  Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

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  Credit, Deeds, Messages

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• I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

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  Adversity, Happy Life, Thank God

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• It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

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  Queens, Queen Elizabeth, Made

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• I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

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  Thinking, Who I Am, Clothes

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

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  Publicity, Live By, Dies

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• Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

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  Niños, Realidad, Personas

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• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

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  America, Humanity, Events

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• When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

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  Clever, Two, Car

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• Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

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  Loss, Airports, Littles

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• Los primeros comentaristas que tacharon al Roosevelt pre-presidencial de joven cabeza hueca, todo ambición y nada de talento, parecen ahora cómicamente equivocados para un público estadounidense moderno que lee libros, va al cine, ve la televisión y es amante de las leyendas, condicionado a pensar en él como uno de los gigantes presidenciales del orden de Washington y Lincoln.

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  Book, Reading, Ambition

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• Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

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  Food, Animal, People

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• Las patatas fritas se han convertido en un horror ineludible en casi todos los restaurantes públicos del país. Patatas fritas", dicen los menús, pero ya no son patatas fritas. Son una sustancia de textura peluda con sabor a madera de plástico.

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  Country, Food, America

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• Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

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  Attitude, Speak English, Long

  Russell Baker (1990). “There's a country in my cellar”, William Morrow & Company

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• Precaución: Estos versos pueden ser peligrosos para su solemnidad.

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  May, Solemnity, Caution

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• The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

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  Environmental, Society, Age

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• Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

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  Discovery, Class, Television

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

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• There are no liberals behind steering wheels.

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  Wheels, Steering, Behinds

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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