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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

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.

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

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

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

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

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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs – I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, studying human sexuality, or redefining their views of the world in poli-sci, and I was memorizing anatomy and crying over o-chem.
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I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
Vladimir Putin
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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