Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

Russell Baker's Popular Quotes

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

- Russell Baker

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

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The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

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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 writ…

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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, fictiti…

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The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can ea…

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

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