"The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
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"The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is."
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"There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple."
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"Liberties are not given, they are taken."
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"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."
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"Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant."
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"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
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"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
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"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
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"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't."
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"Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science."
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"The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
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"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen."
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"And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."
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"A man can smile and smile and be a villain."
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"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid."
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"Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many."
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"life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything"
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"Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages."
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"The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own."
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