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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Incline Mind More Original Powerful Religion Solitude Toward
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme
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
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Gadgetry Glitterm Hyprotize Man Own
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Found Intellectual Interesting More One Person Thing
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
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Artistry Ethical Good Individual Mass Produce Product Spiritual
The more you know, the more you see
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Know More See You
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
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
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
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 survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Ability Adequate Choice Democracy Depend Information Large Make Number People Realistic Survival
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Even Floursihm Country Foot Know Liberty Near Permanently War

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

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