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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

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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 natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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

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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