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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley

Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Ccomplish Country Loudspeaker More People Person Propaganda Radio Recording Success Tape Television Vast Video
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Everyone Rise Sun
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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All Army Boss Control Efficient Excite Manager One Political Population Powerful Really Start Totalitarian
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Being Centralized Concentrate Democracy Economic Expect Flourish Hardly Political Power Progressively Society
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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All Good Give Homemade Our Power Pull String Them
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Endless Everything Information Life Short Tiem
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Compassion Intelligence Live Long Nature Only Permitted Planer Shall Treat
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Act Being Capable Great Human Irritation Seem Variety Way
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Discontent Hole Infect Peg Round Social Square System Tend Through
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Able Been Brute Demons Level Often Rise Sunk Thank Word
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
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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How Intoxicate People Really Themselves Work
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Human Make One People Propagandist Purpose Set
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Anything Like Pierce Properly Read Through Use Word Xray
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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From History Important Learn Lesson Men Much Very
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Arteriosclerosis Before Develop Get Kind Majority Mental People Physical Seem Year Young

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