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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner

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