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Glance is the enemy of vision.

Ezra Pound

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time

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