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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

Ezra Pound

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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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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Better Finding Mental Myself
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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

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