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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. Elwyn Brooks White
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. Elwyn Brooks White
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Elwyn Brooks White
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. Elwyn Brooks White
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. Elwyn Brooks White
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. Elwyn Brooks White
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19. Elwyn Brooks White
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia. Vladimir Putin
My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last. Qorianka Kilcher
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. Kurt Cobain
When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again. C. C. H. Pounder
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