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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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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.

  

  Imran Amed
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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.

  

  Walt Disney
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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.

  

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

  

  Barbara Lee
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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.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

  

  Tariq Ali
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  • Forever

• 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?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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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.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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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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• An entire mythology is stored within our language.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Not as in rest she bowed, But large hot tears were coursing down her cheek. And her low-panted sobs broke awefully Upon the sleeping echoes of the night.

  

  Lewis Carroll
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• I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

  

  Jim Coleman
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• With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.

  

  Jeev Milkha Singh
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• Cultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.

  

  Anthony Giddens
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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