Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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