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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 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
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
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue

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