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Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

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