Famous quotes containing the words general, population and/or prefer:
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
—Roland Barthes (19151980)
“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
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