Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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.
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