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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Almost Being Capacity Grant Human Infinite Most Take Thing
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Among Church Consider Equivalent Father Going Mountain Walk
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Human Make One People Propagandist Purpose Set
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
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Ever Happen Insignificant Mean Other So Something
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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Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme
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
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Always Claim Disillusion Father Rebellious Son
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Eclipse Thrill Truth Unexciting
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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From History Important Learn Lesson Men Much Very
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
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Every Man Literature Memory Private
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
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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Bhagavad Gita Endowing Evolution Mankind Most Powerful Spiritual Sytemanic Value
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Beauty Beholder Both Holder Intoxicate Wine Worse
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

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