Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
EZRA POUNDA slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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