Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDUntil 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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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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