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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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 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
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run

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