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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

Ezra Pound

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

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