"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
-Aldous Huxley
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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.“
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"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
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"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie."
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"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
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"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."
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"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."
-Aldous Huxley
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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