Ezra Pound Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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Fashion is more about feel than science.
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Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
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I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
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Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
