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Sunday April 5, 2020

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

—Russell Baker
  American writer(1935-2019)

Source:"The Plot against People," column entry in The New York Times, June 1968




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