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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

Aldous Huxley

Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Behave Essentially Good Naturally Sane Try
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
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
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Man Mas Murder Organizing Species Unique
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Been Fear Manipulate Many never
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
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Coma Death Full Ignore Last Longer Moment Morphia Shuffle Squirted Yourself
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Eclipse Thrill Truth Unexciting
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.
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Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
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
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Ability Adequate Choice Democracy Depend Information Large Make Number People Realistic Survival
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Ignorance Know Vicble Want
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Found Intellectual Interesting More One Person Thing
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Given Litertaure Taken
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

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