"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
-Ezra Pound
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"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.“
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"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
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"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
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"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
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"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
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"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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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
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-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
-John Ruskin
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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