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Ezra Pound

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary

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