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All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. ↗

— George Edward Moore

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And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S. ↗

— Michael Moore

#humour #least #make #most #most powerful

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ↗

— George Orwell

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. ↗

— George Orwell

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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 consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story. ↗

— Emily Procter

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As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me. ↗

— Tony Conrad

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There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. ↗

— Robert Creeley

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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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