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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

Ezra Pound

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

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