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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
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• We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

  

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• I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.

  

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• Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

  

  Robin LaFevers
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• Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

  

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

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Solitude