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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Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.
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If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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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I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions of poetry have been getting far off from normal life, so that to have a prose bridge makes reading poetry seem more natural.
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We can’t let a cop be killed because a cop is a symbol of law and order.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
