Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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