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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’

Ezra Pound

Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
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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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man

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