Ezra Pound Quotes
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
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Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
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If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.
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This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national symbol as the maple leaf.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
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It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.
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She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
