Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
("Brave New World")
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We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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