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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Aldous Huxley

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
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Gamble never Win
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
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Always Bullying End Everyone Good Human Race Universal Wants
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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Discontent Hole Infect Peg Round Social Square System Tend Through
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
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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How Intoxicate People Really Themselves Work
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Come Drug Honey Hug Miss Till
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Eclipse Thrill Truth Unexciting
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
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
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
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.
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Advice Each Other Embarrassing Five Forty Give Kinder People Research Study Years
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
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Been Believe Condition Them Thing
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ignorance Know Vicble Want

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