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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’

Ezra Pound

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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 sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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 civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk

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