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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.

Ezra Pound

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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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
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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Build Money Pursue State
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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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Heritage Love True Well
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain

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