Quote by Aldous Huxley
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. – Aldous Huxley

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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. – 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. – Aldous Huxley

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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults. – Proverb

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. – Edward W. Howe

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. – Bobby Scott

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