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"The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined."

"I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda."
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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."

"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
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