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
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  1. Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan

  2. I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. - Louise Erdrich

  4. People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. - Johnny Depp

  5. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

More Quotes By Russell Baker
  1. The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

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

  3. 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.

  4. A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

  5. We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled like movers trying to get a refrigerator into a fifth...

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