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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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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Cancer Life World
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image

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