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 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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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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This life is beautiful. It’s so goddamned beautiful I can hardly stand it. And I’m a glorious part of it! Everybody else is just taking up space. Goddamned stupid people. I’d like to shove life down all their throats and then maybe they’d understand what it’s all about.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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If you shake my hand, better count your fingers.
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I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
