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Sense Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity…
- Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.
- A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
- Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
- The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
- We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever…
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- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
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