#be

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#believe #believed #did #economic #encouragement

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#any #before #felt #great #great idea

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. ↗

— Richard H. Baker

#fathom #full #full moon #impossible #magnificence

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it. ↗

— Rick Baker

#because #behind #cgi #doing #good

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#almost #always #best #dead #educated

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #bump #church #deciding #dump

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#before #children #curiosity #finally #know

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. ↗

— Russell Baker

#enjoy #know #left #lot #more

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#began #between #coded #gave #hostile

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. ↗

— Russell Baker

#elizabeth #foreign #made #me #queen