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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.

Ezra Pound

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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol

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