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

Aldous Huxley

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
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Agreeable Boredom Excessive Liberty Painful Rather Symbol Traveller True
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

All Good Give Homemade Our Power Pull String Them
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Between Choice Follow Made Madman Madness Man Reason Unhestaingly Word
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
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
If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Another Being Either Hang Human Kill Like Really Shown Themselves Vermin
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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Even Floursihm Country Foot Know Liberty Near Permanently War
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Acquire Even Focus More Nature Power Sought Such Taste Tend
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
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
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Also Art Fool Right Time
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Incline Mind More Original Powerful Religion Solitude Toward

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