The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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