If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBy thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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