What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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