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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight

Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

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