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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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 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
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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