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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

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
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word

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