Ezra Pound Quotes
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra Pound
Quotes to Explore
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
Zach Galifianakis
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
Maajid Nawaz
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Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
Abbey Clancy
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
Randi Weingarten
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
Gary Hamel
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I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.
William Baziotes
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To write, you need to find what you love.
D. J. MacHale
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Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
Susanna Moore
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I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.
Henry Kissinger
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One day as a child, Brian was complaining to his mother about all the things he had to do: his homework, his chores.… “Technically, you don’t have to do anything,” his mother replied. “You don’t have to do what your teachers tell you. You don’t have to do what I tell you. You don’t even have to obey the law. There are consequences to everything, and you get to decide whether you want to face those consequences.” Brian’s kid-mind was blown. It was a powerful message, an awakening of a sense of agency, responsibility, moral judgment. It was something else, too: a powerful computational technique called Lagrangian Relaxation.
Brian Christian
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra Pound
