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  • In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for thedisastrousrise of misplaced powers exists and will persist. 302

    - Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
      Farewell address to the nation,17  Jan.

  • Art very possibly ought to be the supreme achievement, the'accomplished', but there is the other satisfactory effectthat of a man hurling himself at an indomitable chaos and yanking and hauling as much of it as possible into some sort of order (or beauty) aware of it both as chaos and as potential.

    - Ezra Loomis Pound
    Quoted in H Kenner (ed) The Pound Era (1973).

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