"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
-Ezra Pound
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"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
-Ezra Pound
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"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
-Ezra Pound
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"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
-Ezra Pound
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"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
-Ezra Pound
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
-Ezra Pound
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-Donny Osmond
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"Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world."
-Karl Rove
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-Dave Eggers
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"A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments."
-Donny Osmond
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"To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise."
-Dave Eggers
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"It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business."
-Donny Osmond
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