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Ezra Pound

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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
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
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself

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