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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#intellectual #interesting #more #one thing #person

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#audiences #cheer #coming #freedom #front

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect. ↗

— Julius Irving

#could #demand #else #ever #expect

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#exotic #far #i #look #me

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men. ↗

— Steve Israel

#men #more #reasons #rely #retirement

Death is better than slavery. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#death #slavery #than

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#charge #come #coming #friends #funny

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#arrangement #benevolent #greater #life #only