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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ask Effective Life Most Often People Technique Transform
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Gamble never Win
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Everyone Rise Sun
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Discontent Hole Infect Peg Round Social Square System Tend Through
At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Act Disquiet Find Knowledge Ourselves Point Question Really Upon Wish
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Make Medical Progress Remarkable Science Soon Such Well Will
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ever Happen Insignificant Mean Other So Something
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Abstraction All Consist Diabolical Human Being Last Propaganda Resort Substitute War
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Anarchy Common Decencies Efficiency Enemy Freedom Life Second Total Wors Worst
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Condemned Fact Human Being Individual Instrument Most Stock Victim
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Accept Almost Boredom Come Philosophical Pleasure
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Every Man Literature Memory Private

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