Aldous Huxley Quotes

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.

Aldous Huxley

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• A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

  

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• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
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• I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

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• I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  

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• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  

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• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

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• The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

  

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• I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

  

  Warwick Davis
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• Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.

  

  Gal Gadot
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• As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?

  

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• Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

  

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• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
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• I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
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• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  

  Damon Runyon
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• You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• 'I'm not optimistic,' he said. 'The issue clearly flies in the face of the First Amendment. People have a right to tell kids whatever they want about religion.''Do they have a right to push human sacrifice?''Of course not, Mac. But this isn’t human sacrifice. It’s just a church school.''I'm not sure the effect isn’t similar.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
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• Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

  

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• The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations.

  

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• Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

  

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• My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.

  

  Aldous Huxley