Ezra Pound Quotes
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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scathing indictment of the climate and leadership to permit sexual harassment to permeate all levels of the Army.
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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
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All of our dreams can come true...
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It's just working people one by one, one at a time.
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It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.
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You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
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“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a map of no earthly geography."
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...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.