"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
-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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-Harry S. Truman
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
-M. H. Abrams
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"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things."
-Joe Namath
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"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."
-Samuel McChord Crothers
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"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."
-Anne Lamott
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"You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside."
-Oswald Chambers
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