1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

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    A dedicated funding stream doesn't necessarily mean it has to be a new tax. It could be from dedication of an existing source.

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    I wasn't really for bringing it back. But it's going to help the economy and we need something to help the economy.

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    We went after the worst of the worst and told them, 'You will not commit crimes here any longer,'

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    I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

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    Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

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    She is a poet of great social consciousness and social awareness. She confronts things that are troubling in our society.

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    Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

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    I would just hope that you recognize it's an office that has to be viable and supported,

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