Ezra Pound Quotes
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.
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In every study we've done, fuel cells surface as the most promising long-term pathway for the industry -- even if you use fossil fuels, like natural gas, as the source of hydrogen.
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Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.
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One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
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Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
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I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
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A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.
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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
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There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
