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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Gadgetry Glitterm Hyprotize Man Own
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Believe Free Hi Invivble Manipulation Mind Myself Person Victim Wall
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
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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Change Found One Oneself Sure Thing Want World
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
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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Cause Kill Name never People Publican Secret Sinner Tell Torture
There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Dictatorship Enthusiasm Good Loss Never One Reson Seem Thoroughly
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Been Believe Condition Them Thing
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Compassion Intelligence Live Long Nature Only Permitted Planer Shall Treat
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Agreeable Boredom Excessive Liberty Painful Rather Symbol Traveller True
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Advocate Early Envisage Free Literacy Possibility Press Propaganda Regar Two Universal
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
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Always Bullying End Everyone Good Human Race Universal Wants
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
No social stability without individual stability.
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Individual No Social Stability
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

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