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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Ezra Pound

Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
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
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
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
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value

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