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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ↗

— E. B. White

#form #get #great #great time #having

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. ↗

— E. B. White

#discouraging #i #know #literature #more

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. ↗

— Gilbert White

#general #history #i #i think #natural

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #signifies #skateboarding #start #thing

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#every #guiding #life #motto #natural

You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #candidate #conservatives #democrats #economy

Man blindly works the will of fate. ↗

— Christoph Martin Wieland

#fate #man #will #works

Some stories are true that never happened. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#happened #never #some #stories #true

Inspiration is the key to everything. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#inspiration #key