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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Aldous Huxley

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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Name never Publican Sinner Tell Torture
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Almost Being Grant Infinite Most Take Thing
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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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 Yet
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Really
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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How Intoxicate Really Themselves
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Agreeable Boredom Excessive Painful Rather Traveller
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 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 Pull String Them
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Incline More Original Toward
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Make One Propagandist Set
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Everyone Other
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.

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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Advocate Early Envisage Free Literacy Possibility Press Propaganda Regar Two Universal
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Gadgetry Glitterm Hyprotize Own
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Consistency Contrary
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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How Liberate Make Mass Next Rather
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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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 Near Permanently
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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Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

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