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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Aldous Huxley

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
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
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
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Country Discover Everyone Other Travel Wrong
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Gadgetry Glitterm Hyprotize Man Own
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
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
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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Generation How Liberate Love Make Mass Next Question Rather
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
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Anarchy Common Decencies Efficiency Enemy Freedom Life Second Total Wors Worst
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
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Chance Children Exist Give Imaginem Anything Isolation
There 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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Certain Corner Improve One Own Self Universe
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Assemble Capacity Choice Crowd Lose Moral People Power Reason
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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Act Disquiet Find Knowledge Ourselves Point Question Really Upon Wish
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Man Mas Murder Organizing Species Unique

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