"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
-Aldous Huxley
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"Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.“
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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."
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