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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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 have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

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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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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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

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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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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.

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Be obscure clearly.

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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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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