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Glance is the enemy of vision.

Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
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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Build Money Pursue State
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple

Glance is the enemy of vision.

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