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Elwyn Brooks White

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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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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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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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 terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

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Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

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