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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Aldous Huxley

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
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 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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Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Coma Death Full Ignore Last Longer Moment Morphia Shuffle Squirted Yourself
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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Children Distinguish Meaningful Meaningless Nowhere Statement Systematic Taught Way
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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Believe Free Hi Invivble Manipulation Mind Myself Person Victim Wall
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
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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Cause Kill Name never People Publican Secret Sinner Tell Torture
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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Correspondingly Demishes Economic Freedom Increase Political Sexual Tend
Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Behave Essentially Good Naturally Sane Try
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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Advice Each Other Embarrassing Five Forty Give Kinder People Research Study Years
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Ignorant Illusion Knowledge Most Ourselves Painful Pleasure Prefer Remain Self
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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Act Disquiet Find Knowledge Ourselves Point Question Really Upon Wish
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Make Medical Progress Remarkable Science Soon Such Well Will
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Ask Effective Life Most Often People Technique Transform
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Country Discover Everyone Other Travel Wrong

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