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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Aldous Huxley

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Ability Adequate Choice Democracy Depend Information Large Make Number People Realistic Survival
No social stability without individual stability.
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Individual No Social Stability
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Act Being Capable Great Human Irritation Seem Variety Way
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Accept Almost Boredom Come Philosophical Pleasure
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
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
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Been Believe Condition Them Thing
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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How Intoxicate People Really Themselves Work
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Being Come Know Love Mind Shall Stillness Wisdom
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Correspondingly Demishes Economic Freedom Increase Political Sexual Tend
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
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Children Distinguish Meaningful Meaningless Nowhere Statement Systematic Taught Way
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
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Cease Exist Face Ignore
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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After Come Express Inexpressible Music Nearest Silence

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