Quote by Aldous Huxley
Cynical realism is the intelligent mans best excuse for doing noth

Cynical realism is the intelligent mans best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. – Aldous Huxley

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they wont see how they really are. – Aldous Huxley

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Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. – Stephen King

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The things we know best are the things we havent been taught. – Luc de Clapiers

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Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. – Ernest Holmes

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. – Walt Whitman

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain

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