Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDOur 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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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Every great change is simple.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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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