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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Ezra Pound

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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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 desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

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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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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