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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work

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