It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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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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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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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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