"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost."
― Russell Baker
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Health
More From Russell Baker
- "Americans like fat books and thin women."
- "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."
- "Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
More In Health
- "If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti – and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera… which can spread like wildfire in Haiti… This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti."― Paul Farmer
- "A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users."― Patricia Hewitt
- "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."― Marie Curie