"If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time."
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"The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above."
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"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder."
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"The more stitches, the less riches."
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""But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."
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"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
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"We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters."
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"For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society."
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."
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"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies."
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"The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray."
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"Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays."
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"Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!"
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"You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk."
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"God in the safe and Ford on the shelves."
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"I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World.""
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"I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into."
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