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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.

Ezra Pound

What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
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
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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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