"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

Huxley, Aldous on drugs
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"Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

Huxley, Aldous on experience   

"I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

Huxley, Aldous on happiness
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"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure."

Huxley, Aldous on heroes and heroism
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"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"

Kerouac, Jack on apathy
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"All of life is a foreign country."

Kerouac, Jack on life
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

Saroyan, William on wisdom
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

Franklin, Benjamin on persuasion
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"Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

Huxley, Aldous on apathy
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"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."

Buscaglia, Leo on apathy
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"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."

Paglia, Camille on anarchism
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

Chomsky, Noam on growth   

"Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century."

Chomsky, Noam on capitalism   

"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

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"I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born."

Kerouac, Jack on eternity
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"The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen."

Shaw, George Bernard on anarchism
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"There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not."

Wilde, Oscar on journalism and journalists
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."

Wilde, Oscar on learning   

"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her."

Wilde, Oscar on liberty   

"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company."

Wilde, Oscar on lies and lying
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?"

Dylan, Bob on greatness
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"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me."

Di Cavour on diplomacy   

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

Santayana, George on emotions
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"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."

Turner, Lana on women
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Santayana, George on past
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

Gibran, Kahlil on forgiveness
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"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on speech   

"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting."

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs."

Makris, Steve G. on modesty   

"Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy."

Simpson, N. F. on enemies   

"Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it."

Unknown, Source on luck   

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on power
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

Wilde, Oscar on motives
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"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."

Carnegie, Dale on memory
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