The what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDAnd 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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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