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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Aldous Huxley

If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Gamble never Win
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Everyone Rise Sun
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Found Intellectual Interesting More One Person Thing
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Incline Mind More Original Powerful Religion Solitude Toward
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.
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Ask Effective Life Most Often People Technique Transform
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Age Carry Child Enthusiasm Genius Lose never Old Secret Spirit
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Agreed Chronic Moralist Most Remorse Sentiment Undesirable
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Discontent Hole Infect Peg Round Social Square System Tend Through
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Ability Activity All Combine Efficiency Incompatible Life Secret Seemingly State
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Education Guarantee Higher Necessarily Virtue
There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Dictatorship Enthusiasm Good Loss Never One Reson Seem Thoroughly
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Eclipse Thrill Truth Unexciting
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Complete Consistency Contrary Dead Life Nature People
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Chance Children Exist Give Imaginem Anything Isolation
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Anarchy Common Decencies Efficiency Enemy Freedom Life Second Total Wors Worst

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