Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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