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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.

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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race

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