A Quote by Russell Baker

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

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Russell Baker
American - Journalist
Born: August 14, 1925

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Selma Blair

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David Brin

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

Roxane Gay

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

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The way you talk to yourself sometimes is terrible! I hear myself, and I go, 'I can't believe you're talking to my friend Allison like that!' It's really terrible, the things we say to ourselves.

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