I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
E. B. WHITEI have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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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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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the 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.
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