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Sovereignty inheres in the rig...

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illeg

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Be not cheap or mediocre in de...

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

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Humanity is the rich effluvium...

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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I once saw a small child go to...

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

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Your mind and you are our Sarg...

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

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Poetry is a language pared dow...

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

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Wars in old times were made to...

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

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America is a lunatic asylum....

America is a lunatic asylum.

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What matters most is not the i...

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

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Every great change is simple....

Every great change is simple.

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It doesn't matter which leg of...

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

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Use no word that under stress ...

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

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Bureaucrats are a pox. They ar...

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

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The temple is holy because it ...

The temple is holy because it is not for sale

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I have tried to write Paradise...

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

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The critic who doesn't make a ...

The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.

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Use no superfluous word, no ad...

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

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And the good writer chooses hi...

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

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Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Ar...

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

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The concept of genius as akin ...

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....