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Ezra Pound

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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run

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