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Wars are made to make debt.

Ezra Pound

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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The what is so much more important than how.
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Wars are made to make debt.

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