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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’

Ezra Pound

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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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General Meet Statement Value
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity

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