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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Ezra Pound

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
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
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner

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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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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