There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll 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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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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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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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The more you know, the more you see
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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