Ezra Pound Quotes
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.
Quotes to Explore
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.
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Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
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I' mi volsi a man destra, e puosi mentea l'altro polo, e vidi quattro stelleviste mai fuor ch'a la prima gente.
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Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.
