Every great change is simple.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Every great change is simple.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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