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Own Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
- Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
- All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own…
- The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while…
- 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…
- Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong