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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – 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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Politics
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Aldous Huxley
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If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. – Aldous Huxley

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Cats
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How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. – Thomas à Kempis

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Hypocrisy

And why do you look at the speck that is in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:3 – Bible

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Hypocrisy

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Hypocrisy

Few love to hear the sins they love to act. – William Shakespeare

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I trust the people. – William Hague

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My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. – Douglas Adams

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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect. – Georges Cuvier

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respect

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. – Douglas MacArthur

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History