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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Ezra Pound

Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word

A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

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