"USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations."
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"America is a lunatic asylum."
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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."
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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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"Wars are made to make debt."
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"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
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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."
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"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."
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"Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials."
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"Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel."
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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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"Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views."
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"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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"The temple is holy because it is not for sale."
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"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language."
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"The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot."
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"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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"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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"Literature is news that stays news."
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