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

Ezra Pound

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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

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

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