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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Ezra Pound

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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

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