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

Quote by E B White

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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the...

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer...

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer...

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is...

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is...

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more...

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more...

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act,...

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act,...

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ......

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ......

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not...

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not...

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe