It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberties are not given, they are taken.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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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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 Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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