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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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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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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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