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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
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time

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