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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Acquire Even Focus More Nature Power Sought Such Taste Tend
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Backward Efficient Going Mean Merely More Progress Provide Technological
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Artistry Ethical Good Individual Mass Produce Product Spiritual
The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Country Fiction Make Much never People Person Reality Sense Trouble
It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Forgetting Free Learn Matter Past Remember Yet
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
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
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
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Given Litertaure Taken
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Great Human Justifier Least Malice Miseries Motivation Stupidity Third Two
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Ignorance Know Vicble Want
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Always Appeal Consolidate Dictator Patriotism Tyranny
By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Excellent However Intention Itself Maintain Occasion Primarily Tend Think
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Been Believe Condition Them Thing

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