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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.

Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Certain Improve One Only Orner Own Self Universe
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Also Art Fool Right Time
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
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Ever Happen Insignificant Mean Other So Something
Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Experience Teachable Teacher
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Illusion Must Seriously Word
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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Age Carry Child Enthusiasm Genius Lose never Old Secret Spirit
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
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Man Mas Murder Organizing Species Unique
If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Another Being Either Hang Human Kill Like Really Shown Themselves Vermin
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Acco Doing Greatest Impish Propaganda Refraining Something Triumph
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Advocate Early Envisage Free Literacy Possibility Press Propaganda Regar Two Universal
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
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
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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Cast Conversely Cost Fear Love

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