When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
EZRA POUNDDon’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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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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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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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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