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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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation

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