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Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
— Russell Baker
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?
— Russell Baker
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
— Russell Baker
Americans like fat books and thin women.
— Russell Baker
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.
— Russell Baker
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
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
— Russell Baker
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
— Russell Baker
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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There are no liberals behind steering wheels.
— Russell Baker
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.
— Russell Baker
It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
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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.
— Russell Baker
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
— Russell Baker
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
— Russell Baker
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
— Russell Baker
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
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A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
— Russell Baker
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
— Russell Baker
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
— Russell Baker
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
— Russell Baker
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
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Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
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Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.
— Russell Baker