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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

I 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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Change Found One Oneself Sure Thing Want World
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
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Beauty Beholder Both Holder Intoxicate Wine Worse
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
But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Appear Elector Ignorance Nonsense Politician Powerful Propaganda World
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Armament Debt Obsolescence Pillar Plan Prosperity Universal Western
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.
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Advice Each Other Embarrassing Five Forty Give Kinder People Research Study Years
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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All Candidate Coach Look Money Need Sincere
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Compassion Intelligence Live Long Nature Only Permitted Planer Shall Treat
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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All Good Give Homemade Our Power Pull String Them
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
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Being Centralized Concentrate Democracy Economic Expect Flourish Hardly Political Power Progressively Society
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Always Contrary Determine End Justify Mean Nature never Such Universe
Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Cage Exist Gilded Just Liberty World
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.
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Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Coma Death Full Ignore Last Longer Moment Morphia Shuffle Squirted Yourself

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