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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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
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
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

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