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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Ezra Pound

Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
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
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme

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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