It’s a glorious time to be an American but the glories come at you so relentlessly, so multitudinously, that they will finish you off unless you ration the intake. Nikita Kruschev, poor dolt, once said the Soviet Union Would bury us. He didn’t know that, left alone, we would bury ourselves under our own riches.
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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| Birth: | 14th August, 1925 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Writer |
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Russell Wayne Baker is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up.
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