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Russell Baker

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Keluarga

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

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Cinta

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

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Pendidikan

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

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Kehidupan

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

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Pendidikan

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.

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Sukses

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

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Sukses

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

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Sukses

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

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Sukses

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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Perjuangan

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

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Kehidupan

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.

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Kegagalan

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

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Kehidupan

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

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Keberanian

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

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Kreativitas

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

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Alam

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

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Humor

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

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Kepemimpinan

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

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Keluarga

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

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Pendidikan

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

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