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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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 difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

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