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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

Ezra Pound

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

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