"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
-Russell Baker
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"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.“
-Russell Baker
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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."
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"Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev."
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"Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong."
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"Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder."
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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."
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-George A. Moore
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
-Babe Ruth
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
-Robert Frost
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
-William Ellery Channing
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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
-Edward R. Murrow
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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
-Billy Graham
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