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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rig

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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Heresy
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Ezra Pound
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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. – Ezra Pound

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Music
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AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? – Ezra Pound

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Fascism
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Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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Scholars, Scholarship

There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

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Scholars, Scholarship

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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Scholars, Scholarship

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We dont walk. We overeat because weve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the we is all of us. Its not the government. Its all of us doing this together. – Mehmet Oz

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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved — commitment to a scenario. – Jean Baudrillard

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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

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Most mens anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. – Edward F. Halifax

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