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

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About E. B. White

Portrait of E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer, essayist, and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He was also the author of highly popular books for children: Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested, and the frog dies of it.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people.

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The time in our own life when we came closest to being convinced by silence was one time at sea in a light fall of snow. We heard nothing—no gravel, no wind, no waves, no wolves, no bell buoy. It was convincing and it was beautiful.

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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.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

—Terry Pratchett

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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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If the solution to a problem of absolute disagreement extends to a call for bloodshed, then neither party has demonstrated the intelligence to formulate the question properly.

—John Steinbeck

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