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Famous quotes containing the word open:

“Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.”
—Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)

“Let us presently go sit in council,
How covert matters may be best disclosed
And open perils surest answered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)