Aldous Huxley Quotes

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

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• I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.

  

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

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• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

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• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
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• I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  

  Gary Gygax
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• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  

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• Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
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• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
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• I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
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• By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Lies

• I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

  

  Og Mandino
  • Mind
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  • Failure

• Run while you still have the chance.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Chance

• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Solitude