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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Ezra Pound

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking

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