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Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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

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