Aldous Huxley Quotes
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
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Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
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I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of wood make me one. I am a designer who cares about the effect of what I do, and about making good things for people to keep and cherish - that, surely, is simply the basic condition for 'good design'?
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The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
