Russell Baker

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“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”

― Russell Baker (1925-2019)

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“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 (1925-2019)

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“A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.”

― Russell Baker (1925-2019)

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“Life is always walking up to us and saying, ‘Come on in, the living’s fine,’ and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.”

― Russell Baker (1925-2019)

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"Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product."

― Russell Baker (1925-2019)

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"Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter."

― Russell Baker (1925-2019)

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"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."

― Russell Baker (1925-2019)