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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

Aldous Huxley

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
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Even Floursihm Country Foot Know Liberty Near Permanently War
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
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Coma Death Full Ignore Last Longer Moment Morphia Shuffle Squirted Yourself
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
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Make Medical Progress Remarkable Science Soon Such Well Will
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Given Litertaure Taken
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Condemned Fact Human Being Individual Instrument Most Stock Victim
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Beauty Beholder Both Holder Intoxicate Wine Worse
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Know Mad Make Shall Truth
No social stability without individual stability.
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Individual No Social Stability
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
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
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Arise City Famous Long Make Men Miserable People Personality Person So Worship
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Armament Debt Obsolescence Pillar Plan Prosperity Universal Western
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
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Been Believe Condition Them Thing
The more you know, the more you see
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Know More See You
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Adore Capable Come Love Oppression People Technology Think
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

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