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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Aldous Huxley

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
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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Able Been Brute Demons Level Often Rise Sunk Thank Word
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Found Intellectual Interesting More One Person Thing
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Always Appeal Consolidate Dictator Patriotism Tyranny
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Backward Efficient Going Mean Merely More Progress Provide Technological
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Ever Happen Insignificant Mean Other So Something
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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Ccomplish Country Loudspeaker More People Person Propaganda Radio Recording Success Tape Television Vast Video
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
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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All Candidate Coach Look Money Need Sincere
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Accept Almost Boredom Come Philosophical Pleasure
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Human Make One People Propagandist Purpose Set
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Dictatorship Enthusiasm Good Loss Never One Reson Seem Thoroughly
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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Cast Conversely Cost Fear Love
It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Forgetting Free Learn Matter Past Remember Yet
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

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