Russell Baker Quotes - Page 6

• Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

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  Looks, Lessons, Recipes

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.75, Diversion Books

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• You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

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  Heart, Light, Heavy

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• What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.

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  Fall, Long, Ears

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

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• The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Office, Speech

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• La política exterior estadounidense aún no se había recuperado de su victoria sobre el comunismo cuando George W. Bush y Condoleezza Rice tomaron el relevo en la Casa Blanca en 2001.

  Russell Baker

  White, House, Victory

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• A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

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  Men, Soul, Earth

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• It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

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  Soul, Next, Next Time

  "Top 10 Commencement Speeches". content.time.com.

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• Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

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  Hands, Feel Good, Causes

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• Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

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  Writing, Media, People

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• Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

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  Determined, Classic, Synonym

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• Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.

  Russell Baker

  Consistency, Skins, Suitcases

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• Yo mismo abandoné la poesía nueva hace 30 años, cuando la mayoría empezó a parecer mensajes codificados entre alienígenas solitarios en un mundo hostil.

  Russell Baker

  Lonely, Loneliness, Years

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• Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

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  Baseball, Years, Way

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• Gerald Boyd era el clásico espécimen del hombre hecho a sí mismo. Nacido pobre, trabajó y estudió para salir de la pobreza bajo la tutela de su abuela viuda.

  Russell Baker

  Grandmother, Men, Self

  "Russell Baker: Gerald Boyd’s Book On Being Fired From The New York Times", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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