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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Pound

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation

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