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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
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
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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

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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