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New Yorker (July 3, 1944)"A Busy Place" New Yorker (July 5, 1976)"A Report in January" Essays of E.B. White (1977)"Dismal?" New Yorker (Feb. 25, 1950)"Doomsday" New Yorker (Nov. 17, 1945)

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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

E.B. White

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White (1899–1985), U.S. author, editor. repr. in Writings from the New Yorker 1927-1976, ed. Rebecca M. Dale (1991). "Polling," New Yorker (November 13, 1948).

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