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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

— Ezra Pound Guide to Kulchur (1938)

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The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Not one man in a thousand can be aroused to an interest in economics until he definitely suffers from the effects of an evil system.

ABC of Economics (1933)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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