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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.

Ezra Pound

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value

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