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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

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#dignity #held #importance #increase #inverse

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

#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#food #food industry #foods #industry #lot

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#counterparts #diabetes #earn #finish #harder

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#basic #body #day #disease #end

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

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