If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, 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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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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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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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