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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Aldous Huxley

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
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Armament Country Debt Obsolescence People Pillar Plan Prosperity Three Universal Western
The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Communication Development Infinity Man More Neither Sitraction Totally
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Everyone Rise Sun
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Arteriosclerosis Before Develop Get Kind Majority Mental People Physical Seem Year Young
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Also Art Fool Right Time
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Acco Doing Greatest Impish Propaganda Refraining Something Triumph
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Education Guarantee Higher Necessarily Virtue
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
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Always Been Discover Goal Life Suppose
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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Anything Like Pierce Properly Read Through Use Word Xray
If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Bound Different Lonely One
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
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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Forgetting Free Learn Matter Past Remember Yet
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
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Age Carry Child Enthusiasm Genius Lose never Old Secret Spirit

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