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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.

Aldous Huxley

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
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Been Fear Manipulate Many never
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Man Mas Murder Organizing Species Unique
All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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All Candidate Coach Look Money Need Sincere
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Gamble never Win
It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Forgetting Free Learn Matter Past Remember Yet
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
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
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well
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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Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Generation How Liberate Love Make Mass Next Question Rather
Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Experience Teachable Teacher
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Great Human Justifier Least Malice Miseries Motivation Stupidity Third Two
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Always Appeal Consolidate Dictator Patriotism Tyranny
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Always Claim Disillusion Father Rebellious Son
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 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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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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