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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Ezra Pound

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary

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