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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Ezra Pound

Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround

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