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Aldous Huxley

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.
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Ability Activity All Combine Efficiency Incompatible Life Secret Seemingly State
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Bhagavad Gita Endowing Evolution Mankind Most Powerful Spiritual Sytemanic Value
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
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
The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Country Fiction Make Much never People Person Reality Sense Trouble
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Condemned Fact Human Being Individual Instrument Most Stock Victim
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Among Church Consider Equivalent Father Going Mountain Walk
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.
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Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Almost Being Capacity Grant Human Infinite Most Take Thing
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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Agreed Chronic Moralist Most Remorse Sentiment Undesirable
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Armament Country Debt Obsolescence People Pillar Plan Prosperity Three Universal Western
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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Armament Debt Obsolescence Pillar Plan Prosperity Universal Western
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Acco Doing Greatest Impish Propaganda Refraining Something Triumph
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Always Contrary Determine End Justify Mean Nature never Such Universe

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