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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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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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