Small talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUNDWhat matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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