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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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

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