The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

—Russell Baker

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About Russell Baker

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Russell Wayne Baker (August 14, 1925 – January 21, 2019) was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times for 36 years, and hosted eleven seasons...

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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

—Russell Baker

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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

—Russell Baker

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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

—Russell Baker

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

—Russell Baker

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I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

—Russell Baker

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Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed—its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

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It's always too early to quit.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

—Edwin Markham

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What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

—Wendell Phillips

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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