Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.
("Brave New World")
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Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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