Aldous Huxley Quotes
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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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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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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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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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
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How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.
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He has embarrassed the government. By continuing as minister without portfolio he has earned himself a price for silence.
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Most people make the mistake of over-training the biceps and under-training the triceps.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
