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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 Huxley

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ignorance Know Vicble Want
The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Anyone Daily Done Letting Lord Million Own Petition Prayer Repeat Slightest Third
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Country Discover Everyone Other Travel Wrong
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Accept Almost Boredom Come Philosophical Pleasure
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Complete Consistency Contrary Dead Life Nature People
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
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Also Art Fool Right Time
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
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
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Certain Improve One Only Orner Own Self Universe
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 HUXLEY

Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
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.
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Acquire Even Focus More Nature Power Sought Such Taste Tend
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
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Always Bullying End Everyone Good Human Race Universal Wants
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Assemble Capacity Choice Crowd Lose Moral People Power Reason
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Among Church Consider Equivalent Father Going Mountain Walk

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