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Wars are made to make debt.

Ezra Pound

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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
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
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View

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