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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

Aldous Huxley

Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Behave Essentially Good Naturally Sane Try
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
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Ever Happen Insignificant Mean Other So Something
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Artistry Ethical Good Individual Mass Produce Product Spiritual
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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Cause Kill Name never People Publican Secret Sinner Tell Torture
Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Better Born Insane Intelligent One Society Stupid
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
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Between Choice Follow Made Madman Madness Man Reason Unhestaingly Word
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Gamble never Win
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
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
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Arteriosclerosis Before Develop Get Kind Majority Mental People Physical Seem Year Young
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
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Abstraction All Consist Diabolical Human Being Last Propaganda Resort Substitute War
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject

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