The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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 third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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