An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
- Russell Baker - In Education
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russell Baker - In Nature
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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 - In Poetry
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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.
- Russell Baker - In Politics
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I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
- John G. Diefenbaker - In Politics
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The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
- John G. Diefenbaker - In Politics
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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.
- Russell Baker - In Science
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker - In Society
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