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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Ezra Pound

What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
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
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

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