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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienc

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. – Aldous Huxley

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Modern mans besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. – 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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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. – Christopher Hitchens

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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth? – Jeanne Moreau

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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. – Thomas Mann

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Confidence and superiority: Its the usual fundamentalist stuff: Ive got the truth, and you havent. – Jeanette Winterson

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