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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

Other quotes by Ezra Pound

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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War
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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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Music
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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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Other Quotes from
Men
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find. – Francis Bacon

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Men

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Men

These are the times that try mens souls. – Thomas Paine

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Men

If its natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? – Joan Baez

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Men

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It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. – Dave Barry

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Coffee (or Tea)

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butchers cleaver. – Lord Byron

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Business

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

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Minorities

Producing is just a big learning experience. – Ashley Tisdale

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Experience