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Opinion Quote by Ezra Pound

“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good” quote by Ezra Pound — Download Open image

“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good”

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“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of…

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

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It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or…

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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of…

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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of…

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where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

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Liberty is not a right but a duty.

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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…

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I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of…

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But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in…

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

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I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane…

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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree…

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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