The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
E. B. WHITEAlways be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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