Quote by Ezra Pound
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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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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Religion
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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Change
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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

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

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. – Simone Weil

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Faith

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. – Edwin Land

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Science

Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. – William Shakespeare

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Chastity

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. – Gary Oldman

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Courage