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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value d

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound

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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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Exile
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Ezra Pound
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The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. – Ezra Pound

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Religion
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Ezra Pound
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Generalize, Generalizations
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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. – William Blake

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Generalize, Generalizations

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. – Eric Hoffer

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Generalize, Generalizations

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. – G. W. F. Hegel

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Generalize, Generalizations

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. – Patrick Kavanagh

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Generalize, Generalizations

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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. – Fran Lebowitz

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Baby or Adoption

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. – Andres Segovia

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Music

The working men, Ill go by and theyll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, Oh, its a girl. Shes got blond hair and shes not out of shape, and then they say, Gosh, its Marilyn Monroe! – Marilyn Monroe

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Men

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. – James Broughton

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Poetry