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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
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
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word

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