Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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