And here I think one has an enormous area in which the ultimate revolution could function very well indeed, an area in which a great deal of control could be used by not through terror, but by making life seem much more enjoyable than it normally does. Enjoyable to the point, where as I said before, Human beings come to love a state of things by which any reasonable and decent human standard they ought not to love and this I think is perfectly possible.
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DAVID CROSBY The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one ... A.W. TOZER A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care... ROGER ZELAZNY I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hu... TIM FERRISS I think he's hoping, if everything went well, he could be walking without crutches by the All-Star b... TERRY FRANCONA The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in d... HASSANAL BOLKIAH I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if con... EAMON DE VALERA It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and expe... MARIA MONTESSORI I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li... BOOKER T. WASHINGTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Yet the love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in... JOHN STUART MILL Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He ga... ANNA SEWELL So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challeng... HENRY KRAVIS Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no contro... ALBERT EINSTEIN Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control.... ALBERT EINSTEIN Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those... OWEN BRANDON In every age men have tried to assemble all the knowledge and experience of their day into a single ... 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You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w... ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h... ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star... ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ... ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy... ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on... ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ... ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t... ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h... ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o... ALDOUS HUXLEY Death
Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing. ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla... ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva... ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v... ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ... ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea... ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.... ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences. ALDOUS HUXLEY