In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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The more you know, the more you see
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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