Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
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- Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
- The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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