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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Ezra Pound

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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
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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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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 artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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

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