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Quote by Aldous Huxley
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three qu

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time ones never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. – Aldous Huxley

Other quotes by Aldous Huxley

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

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Truth
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Aldous Huxley
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Time is the soul of business. – English Proverb

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Time

If you look – look at – I mean, look at whats going on with your gasoline prices. Theyre going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we dont have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, Fellas, its time. Its over. Youre not going to do it anymore. – Donald Trump

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Time

The only reason for time is so that everything doesnt happen at once. – Albert Einstein

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Time

Ive been on a calendar, but Ive never been on time. – Marilyn Monroe

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Time

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Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I dont care where it is, when they look at me its not about my intelligence. Its who can I beat up. – Danny Aiello

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Intelligence

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss. – Dorothy Parker

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Love :: Kisses

Good fences make good neighbors. – Robert Frost

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Neighbors

As for the bitter herbs…. To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point — bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering… – Julia Neuberger, On Being Jewish, 1995

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Passover