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Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along that spoiled everything.

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Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutalityÂ—the principle of order versus the split atom.

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Feisal Abdul Rauf

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

Perception | Practice | Religion | Truth |

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Felix Adler

Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting. And let the memory of our dead help us to do this. For they are not wholly separated from us, if we remain loyal to them. In spirit they are with us. And we may think of them as silent, invisible, but real presences in our households.

Cause | Religion | Truth |

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Felix Adler

We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

Life | Life | Struggle |

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Felix Adler

There is a city to be built, the plan of which we carry in our heads, in our hearts. Countless generations have already toiled at the building of it. The effort to aid in completing it, with us, takes the place of prayer. In this sense we say, "Laborare est orare."

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Gustave Flaubert

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

God | God |

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Gustave Flaubert

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

Virtue | Virtue |

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech ? alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

Education | Sacrifice |

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