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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Ezra Pound

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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk

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