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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
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
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

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