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.
EZRA POUNDUse no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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