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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.

Ezra Pound

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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well

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