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Aldous Huxley

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Discontent Hole Infect Peg Round Social Square System Tend Through
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
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
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
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
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
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Always Been Discover Goal Life Suppose
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Also Art Fool Right Time
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Even Floursihm Country Foot Know Liberty Near Permanently War
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Anarchy Common Decencies Efficiency Enemy Freedom Life Second Total Wors Worst
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Certain Improve One Only Orner Own Self Universe
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Every Man Literature Memory Private
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
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well

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