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Elwyn Brooks White

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

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

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

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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.

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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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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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

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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

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I used to play – when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life… I haven't been the best father… Many times… my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

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