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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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

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