If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat 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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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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