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Results of search for Author: E. B. White - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 15 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

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.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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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.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

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.: E.B. White

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Results of search for Author: E. B. White - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 15 total quotations found.

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