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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

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.

Debates Disarmament Knights Make Next One Organization Room World

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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

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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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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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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 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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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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