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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

Ezra Pound

If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight

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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