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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

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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Build Money Pursue State
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
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
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
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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

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