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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

Aldous Huxley

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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Always Contrary Determine End Justify Mean Nature never Such Universe
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Backward Efficient Going Mean Merely More Progress Provide Technological
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
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
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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After Come Express Inexpressible Music Nearest Silence
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Everyone Rise Sun
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Anything Like Pierce Properly Read Through Use Word Xray
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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Communication Development Infinity Man More Neither Sitraction Totally
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Better Born Insane Intelligent One Society Stupid
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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From History Important Learn Lesson Men Much Very
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Know Mad Make Shall Truth
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Ever Happen Insignificant Mean Other So Something
But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Appear Elector Ignorance Nonsense Politician Powerful Propaganda World
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Endless Everything Information Life Short Tiem
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

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