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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. ↗

— Peta Wilson

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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