Baker

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(690 votes)  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 (Wayne) Baker
1925-, American Journalist

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(527 votes)  The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Russell (Wayne) Baker
1925-, American Journalist

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(460 votes)  The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker

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(453 votes)  You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Anita Baker
American Singer, Entertainer

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(436 votes)  Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Karl Baker

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(249 votes)  In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author

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(241 votes)  Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Russell (Wayne) Baker
1925-, American Journalist

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(239 votes)  Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell (Wayne) Baker
1925-, American Journalist

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

Russell (Wayne) Baker
1925-, American Journalist

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(235 votes)  So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Russell (Wayne) Baker
1925-, American Journalist

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(229 votes)  In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Russell (Wayne) Baker
1925-, American Journalist

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(208 votes)  Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author

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(208 votes)  The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author

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(202 votes)  Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author

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(184 votes)  Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author

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(174 votes)  You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.

James Baker

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(171 votes)  To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Richard Baker

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(171 votes)  Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

Kenneth Baker
American Professor

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(168 votes)  The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker

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(168 votes)  He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Kenneth Baker
American Professor

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(167 votes)  . . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Josephine Baker

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(164 votes)  Reject hatred without hating.

Mary Baker Eddy
1821-1910, American Christian Writer, Founder of Christian Science

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(162 votes)  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.

R. Baker

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(159 votes)  Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

James Baker

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