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Quote by Ezra Pound
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of li

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. – Ezra Pound

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The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. – Ezra Pound

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Religion
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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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Scholars, Scholarship
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound

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Fires cant be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. – James A. Baldwin

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Mens arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. – Charles Caleb Colton

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I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. Its easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust. – Paris Hilton

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. – Mario Puzo

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I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. – Jean-Baptiste Corot

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Portland, Oregon wont build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time. – Lance Armstrong

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Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. – William Blake

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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Education