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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Ezra Pound

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary

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