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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Able Attractions Bully Cheat Feeling Fulfills Great More Nation Our Patriotism Person Profoundly Vicariously Virtuous Wishes Worst

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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Effectively God Knowledge Make Only Room Sacrifice

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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Bondage Cunning Fight Life Most Personal Personality Self Stubborn Tireless Will

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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Activity Any Ever Human Human Activity Importance Laughter Misery Over Pain Pleasure Slightly Which

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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Because Ignorance Know Most Want

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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Distressing Happen Most Next Prophet Proved Right Thing Wrong

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Being Equal Ever Given His Human Human Being Men Ordinary Proposition Sane Times Which

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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Constant Dog Dogs Every Every Man Hence His Man Napoleon Popularity

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Drape Gentlemen Idealism Noble Over Political Power Will

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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: About Boring Curiously Else Happiness Somebody Something

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 26th, 1894

Died: November 22nd, 1963

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