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Russell Baker is an American writer renowned for his humor and insightful observations. His works cover a range of topics including politics, society, and culture, with his most famous books being 'The Good Government Guide' and 'America: The Growth of a Nation'.

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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.”

Funny Science Three Lost Work Break Objects Computer Majors Down And Categories Breaking Down Break Up Lost Friendship Inanimate Objects

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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.”

Needs Funny Science Break Car Shots Fuel Efficiency Breaking Down Fuel Efficiency

Book:There's a Country in My Cellar

Source: There's a Country in My Cellar

“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.”

Men Giving Littles Lasts Science Poor Millions Sky Mankind Rocks Moon Office Twenties Dollars Billions Miles Flight Thirty Aviation Chemicals Quarters Metals Agony Magnificent Wire

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“Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.”

Has Beens Facts Science Lost Break Scientist Breaking Down

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“What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.”

Men Shows Jobs Science Impossible Possibility Moon Obsession Bores Landing

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“I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.”

I Can Science Hours Space Millions Sun Rocks Sitting Rate Miles Infinity Gravity Pointing Spinning

Book:So this is depravity

Source: So this is depravity

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Born: August 14, 1925
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 141

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So this is depravityRelated source material

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Growing upRelated source material

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of MemoirRelated source material

So This Is Depravity and Other ObservationsRelated source material

No Cause for PanicRelated source material

The rescue of Miss Yaskell, and other pipe dreamsRelated source material

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