The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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