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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.

Ezra Pound

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
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
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself

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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