"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
-Aldous Huxley
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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.“
-Aldous Huxley
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"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image."
-Aldous Huxley
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"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
-Aldous Huxley
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"Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."
-Aldous Huxley
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"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."
-Aldous Huxley
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"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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