Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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