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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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I want to do something that can support all the people in Korea and the world who see us and are inspired to do their own thing.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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