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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.

Aldous Huxley

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Ignorance Know Vicble Want
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
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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Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Coma Death Full Ignore Last Longer Moment Morphia Shuffle Squirted Yourself
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
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
The more you know, the more you see
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Know More See You
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
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Act Addiction Desire Give Increase Less Satisfaction
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Make Medical Progress Remarkable Science Soon Such Well Will
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Found Intellectual Interesting More One Person Thing
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
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
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Also Art Fool Right Time
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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After Come Express Inexpressible Music Nearest Silence
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Been Fear Manipulate Many never
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Arteriosclerosis Before Develop Get Kind Majority Mental People Physical Seem Year Young
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
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Being Centralized Concentrate Democracy Economic Expect Flourish Hardly Political Power Progressively Society
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
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
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Always Been Discover Goal Life Suppose
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
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
All 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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All Candidate Coach Look Money Need Sincere

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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