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Elwyn Brooks White : Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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John Updike : " It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Gerald Barzan : " I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Fernando Pessoa : " It's certain that, when hearing from any of those people the story of their sexual marathons, a vague suspicion pervades us, at about the seventh deflowering. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Ralph Nader : " Half of democracy is about just showing up. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Jimmy Breslin : " The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Aneurin Bevan : " The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Lyndon B Johnson : " Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Philip James Bailey : " Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Lord Alfred Tennyson : " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Bobby Fischer : " I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before i cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind. " # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Elwyn Brooks White: " Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Elwyn Brooks White: " Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." # Automobiles

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Elwyn Brooks White: " One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy." # Enemies

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Elwyn Brooks White: " The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk." # Liberals # Love # Politicians and Politics

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Elwyn Brooks White: " The rules of The Elements of Style were as simple to state — "Omit needless words" — as they were difficult to obey." # Writers and Writing # Style # Words

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Elwyn Brooks White: " The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done." # Neighbors # Dreams # Love

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Elwyn Brooks White: " Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying." # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Elwyn Brooks White: " We received a letter from the Writers' War Board the other day asking for a statement on "The Meaning of Democracy." It is presumably our duty to comply with such a request, and it is certainly our pleasure. Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don't in don't shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles, the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is the letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn't been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It's the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of the morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is." # Love # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

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Elwyn Brooks White: " New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine." # Cities and City Life # Love # Life and Living

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Elwyn Brooks White: " Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword." # Advertising # Dreams # Ambition

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