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“A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.”

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Russell Baker

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'. more

“A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection.”

May Hurt Hell Addiction Collections Cds Heroin

Author:Bill Maher

“Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.”

Stories Community Fire Listening Gathering

Author:Bill Maher

“What is "martinizing" and why does it only take one hour?”

Doe Hours One Hour

Author:Bill Maher

“I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.”

Giving Long Made Cities Tomorrow Spending Damn Chicago Bus

Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.”

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Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.”

Humans Form Development Human Form

Book:Sexuality and The Psychology of Love

Source: Sexuality and The Psychology of Love

“The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.”

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Book:SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Totem and Taboo, Leonardo da Vinci…

Source: SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Totem and Taboo, Leonardo da Vinci…

“We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.”

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Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

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