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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

Ezra Pound

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

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