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

~E. B. White

Topics: Agreement Among Countries Disagreement Likely More Nothing People Start Than

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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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Topics: Arise Between Day Desire Enjoy Hard Improve Makes Morning Plan Torn World

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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.

~E. B. White

Topics: Acceptance Adjustment Age Atom His Man New Power Speed Terror Violence

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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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Topics: Act Circus Commas Fall Knives New New Yorker Precision Victim Yorker

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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

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Topics: Avoid Change Common Instinctively Long Long Run Only Run Sense

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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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Topics: Analyzing Dies Few Few People Frog Humor Interested Like People

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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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Topics: Account Always Another Complicated Get How Leading Limit No Limit One Thing Thing Things

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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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Topics: Arms Debates Disarmament Imperative Knights Make Moves National Next Organization Pawn Room World

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

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Topics: Become Before Eighteen Father Time War Years

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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.

~E. B. White

Topics: Been Bent Days Effect Ill Knowingly Need Once Over Skin Walks Weather Wet Who Without Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 11th, 1899

Died: October 1st, 1985

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