The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Either move or be moved.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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