#own

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

#categories #classified #down #get #into

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. ↗

— Russell Baker

#business #discussion #financial #found #jobs

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. ↗

— Stephen Baker

#any #assembled #available #better #comes

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#actually #alan #book #came #down

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#babies #been #eagles #every #evidence

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#does #his #interest #muslim #own

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field. ↗

— Scott Bakula

#creativity #field #hurts #i #level

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#basis #close #doubtless #enclosed #formed

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#forces #move #natural #own #seek