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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

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