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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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God isnt compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. – Aldous Huxley

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. – Aldous Huxley

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I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

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Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, “There’s a naked person outside!” – Mike Nichols

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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup. – Bennett Cerf

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