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EZRA POUNDLiberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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