Ezra Pound Quotes
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
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I wish I could prove that he hypnotized me... That would give me a reason for doing such a dumb thing.
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Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
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When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.
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The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.
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Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
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I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.
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When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
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It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.
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Most of the time, it's easy for us basketball players to adjust to our situation.
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I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.
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Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.
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I hear frustration. I certainly am frustrated myself.
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Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.
