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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.

Aldous Huxley

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Come Drug Honey Hug Miss Till
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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Anyone Daily Done Letting Lord Million Own Petition Prayer Repeat Slightest Third
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
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 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
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
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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Condemned Fact Human Being Individual Instrument Most Stock Victim
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Acquire Even Focus More Nature Power Sought Such Taste Tend
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
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
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Ability Activity All Combine Efficiency Incompatible Life Secret Seemingly State
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Abstraction All Consist Diabolical Human Being Last Propaganda Resort Substitute War
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
By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Excellent However Intention Itself Maintain Occasion Primarily Tend Think
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Armament Debt Obsolescence Pillar Plan Prosperity Universal Western
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
Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Cage Exist Gilded Just Liberty World
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Against Believe Deepest Evidence Juman Mind
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
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Assemble Capacity Choice Crowd Lose Moral People Power Reason
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Between Choice Follow Made Madman Madness Man Reason Unhestaingly Word
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Bhagavad Gita Endowing Evolution Mankind Most Powerful Spiritual Sytemanic Value
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Experience Teachable Teacher
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Accept Almost Boredom Come Philosophical Pleasure
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Ask Effective Life Most Often People Technique Transform

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