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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound

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
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
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
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave

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