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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right

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